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Table 2 Summary statistics of daily concentrations of air pollutants and meteorological indices

From: Association between PM2.5 and primary care visits due to asthma attack in Japan: relation to Beijing’s air pollution episode in January 2013

Air pollutants and meteorological indices

2011

2012

2013

January

February

March

January

February

March

January

February

March

PM2.5 (μg/m3)

13.9

26.9

20.9

19.9

24.2

26.7

24.1

25.3

37.2

PM10 (μg/m3)

19.6

39.1

33.0

26.0

30.8

36.5

31.8

33.7

59.9

OBC (μg/m3)

0.4

0.7

0.4

0.4

0.4

0.4

0.5

0.4

0.8

NO2 (ppb)

15.9

13.4

11.8

11.3

12.0

14.2

12.6

12.1

14.5

Ozone (ppb)

20.7

26.4

32.5

19.9

23.0

26.8

23.6

27.7

30.6

Atmospheric pressure (hPa)

1,014.5

1,014.8

1,013.7

1,015.6

1,014.7

1,012.6

1,016.8

1,016.5

1,011.7

Relative humidity (%)

64

68

65

67

67

68

68

69

67

Temperature (°C)

2.4

5.8

6.5

4.1

3.7

7.8

3.5

4.6

9.0

Wind speed (m/s)

2.8

2.3

2.5

2.5

2.7

2.8

2.5

2.4

2.7

Daylight (h)

6.3

5.5

6.0

4.6

4.6

4.4

5.4

4.7

5.7

  1. NO 2 nitrogen dioxide, OBC optical black carbon, PM particulate matter