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Table 2 Statistics for urban air pollutant, weather variables, and distribution of the absolute differences between the daily levels of each pollutant ("event days") and the average concentrations over the "control days".

From: Urban air pollution and emergency room admissions for respiratory symptoms: a case-crossover study in Palermo, Italy

Parameter

Unit

Mean

Percentiles

   

10

25

50

75

90

Pollutants

       

   PM10

μg/m3

36.0*

21.6

26.3

33.2

41.5

52.6

   NO2

μg/m3

41.5

24.8

32.7

40.8

49.7

58.6

   SO2

μg/m3

3.4

0.6

1.2

2.6

4.5

6.9

   CO

mg/m3

1.1

0.4

0.6

0.9

1.5

2.1

Differences "event-control" days

       

   PM10

μg/m3

11.8

1.4

4.2

8.9

15.6

24.1

   NO2

μg/m3

10.8

1.7

4.1

9.0

15.2

22.1

   SO2

μg/m3

2.2

0.3

0.6

1.4

2.8

5.0

   CO

mg/m3

0.4

0.0

0.1

0.3

0.6

0.9

Weather variables

       

   Air temperature

°C

18.6

10.7

13.3

18.7

23.8

26.7

   Relative humidity %

%

58.8

44.2

51.3

59.8

66.9

72.1

   Atmospheric pressure

mbars

994.2

987.6

990.7

993.9

997.8

1001.3

   Precipitation

mm

0.1

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.3

   Wind speed

m/s

3.2

1.6

2.0

2.6

4.1

6.1

  1. January 2005 - December 2007
  2. * on a cumulative basis, about 45% of the daily observations exceeded threshold.