Please visit the VM Summary Page for a complete listing of the aims, investigators, and materials associated with the Vehicle Microenvironment (VM) hosted project.

The motor vehicle is a special kind of indoor environment, which requires special attention. Firstly, vehicles have much smaller volumes than most other indoor environments, and, therefore, pollutants emitted in their interior have the potential to reach peak levels that far exceed anything that would occur in homes, offices, and other indoor locations.

Please visit the RTPMM Summary Page for a complete listing of the aims, investigators, and materials associated with the Real-Time Particle Monitoring Methods (RTPMM) hosted project.

Please visit the LAPD Summary Page for a quick description of the aims, investigators, and materials associated with the Local Air Pollutant Dispersion (LAPD) hosted project.

Introduction

This page describes the Total Human Exposure Model (THEM) for exploring particle exposures in the San Francisco Bay Area. Please visit the THEM Summary Page for a complete list of all the THEM project details.

Introduction

MIAQ is a Multi-chamber Indoor Air Quality model orginally authored by William W. Nazaroff as part of his Ph.D. disseration research in the Environmental Engineering Science Department at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA.

The current maintainer of MIAQ is Dr. Neil E. Klepeis.

This page provides details on the human exposure research (heR) software project. You may also want to visit the heR Summary Page page, which lists the main heR highlights.

The heR Project is officially part of the Inhalation Exposure Simulation Modeling project, because it includes sophisticated tools for modeling individual and population exposures. However, it also contains many tools, sub-models, and data sets that are likely to be useful in many different areas of human exposure research. For example, it contains subroutines for manipulating and statistically analyzing activity pattern data, and it also contains routines for executing advanced indoor air quality models.

Please visit the IESM Summary Page for a quick description of the aims, investigators, and materials associated with the Inhalation Exposure Simulation Modeling (IESM) hosted project.

Please visit the HAP Summary Page for a quick description of the aims, investigators, and materials associated with the Human Activity Patterns (HAP) hosted project.

Please visit the IAQ Summary Page for a list of the aims, investigators, and materials associated with the Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) hosted project.

The IAQ project hosted here investigates a wide variety of factors that impact the concentrations of air pollution that can occur in typical indoor environments. These factors include building construction, mass emission rates of different sources, ventilation rates, particle deposition rates, chemical reaction rates (including surface interaction), and indoor-outdoor particle penetration rates.

Everything on this website belongs to one or more intellectual projects with defined hypotheses, goals, methods, and accomplishments. This online book contains background information and links for all the exposure-related research projects. In each chapter of this book, we provide descriptions of the history, methods and results of each research project. Note: Project and the different materials associated with each project (document, software, data set, etc.) have their own convenient summary webpage in addition to the information given here.