Typical daily profiles of PM concentrations in parisian underground railway stations

Abstract

To enhance the understanding of air quality within underground railway stations (URS), a methodology has been developed to establish a baseline profile of particle concentrations (PM10 and PM2.5). This approach incorporates an extensive data cleaning process based on the identification of URS operation periods, physically inconsistent or mathematically aberrant data, and comparing the profile of each day to an average profile. The versatility of this methodology allows its application to different particle classes within various URS. The results obtained from the three studied URS indicate the possibility of obtaining reliable daily typical profiles even over short measurement periods (up to one or two weeks).