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Personal PM_2.5 Exposure Using Time-Weighted Average Scenarios in the Seoul Metropolitan Area.

Jae-Won Choi¹, Shin-Young Park¹, Cheol-Min Lee¹

¹Department of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Seokyeong University, 14, Seogyeong-ro, Seongbuk-ku, Seoul 12713, Republic of Korea.

|May 27, 2026

Summary

Accurately assessing personal exposure to pollutants like PM2.5 requires considering individual activity patterns. Integrating time-activity data with microenvironment concentrations offers a more reliable method than traditional approaches, improving exposure assessment accuracy.

Keywords:

particle matter personal exposure time-weighted average

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Area of Science:

Environmental Health Sciences
Epidemiology
Exposure Science

Background:

Personal exposure assessment is crucial for environmental and epidemiological studies.
Conventional methods often fail to capture individual spatiotemporal activity characteristics accurately.

Purpose of the Study:

To evaluate personal exposure assessment methods for PM2.5.
To compare measured personal exposure with three distinct estimation scenarios.

Main Methods:

Utilized personal PM2.5 measurements and time-activity data (TAD) from adults in the Seoul metropolitan area.
Compared measured exposure against three scenarios: fixed-site data (S1), location-based outdoor/indoor data (S2), and integrated microenvironment data with TAD (S3).

Main Results:

Exposure levels varied significantly based on activity patterns and microenvironment occupancy.
The scenario integrating microenvironmental concentrations and TAD (S3) showed the closest agreement with measured personal exposure.
S1 and S2 generally overestimated exposure, while S3 demonstrated high correlation (r=0.78) and low errors (RMSE=4.79, MAE=3.70).

Conclusions:

Integrating time-activity patterns with microenvironmental concentrations significantly improves personal exposure assessment accuracy and reliability.
This refined approach enhances the dependability of epidemiological studies relying on exposure data.