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1. Correlating Indoor and Outdoor Temperature and Humidity in a Sample of Buildings in Tropical Climates

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Linsey C. Marr, Miguela A. Caniza, Hong Kai Lee, Alejandra Nava Ruiz, Yuguo Li, Julian Tang, Chun Kiat Lee, Carlos Francisco Santillan-Salas, Jean-Michel Heraud, Jin Pan, Evelyn Siew-Chuan Koay, Virginia Tech [Blacksburg], University of Leicester, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Unité de Virologie [Antananarivo, Madagascar] (IPM), Institut Pasteur de Madagascar, Réseau International des Instituts Pasteur (RIIP)-Réseau International des Instituts Pasteur (RIIP), National University of Singapore (NUS), Agency for science, technology and research [Singapore] (A*STAR), National University Health System [Singapore] (NUHS), The University of Hong Kong (HKU), Hospital de Especialidades Pediátricas, Instituto Nacional de Salud del Niño San Borja, This research was supported by a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation as part of its Microbiology of the Built Environment program. The authors thank Kaisen Lin for helpful discussions, Julia Gohlke, Archit Manuja, and AJ Prussin II for handling sensors, and and the reviewers for their detailed feedback that helped strengthen this paper.

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Wet season, bepress|Engineering|Civil and Environmental Engineering|Environmental Engineering, Environmental Engineering, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, bepress|Engineering, 010501 environmental sciences, Atmospheric sciences, 01 natural sciences, complex mixtures, outdoor, [SDV.MHEP.MI]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology/Infectious diseases, engrXiv|Engineering|Civil and Environmental Engineering, medicine, Temperate climate, Relative humidity, indoor, climate, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Tropical Climate, [SDV.MHEP.ME]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology/Emerging diseases, engrXiv|Engineering|Civil and Environmental Engineering|Environmental Engineering, business.industry, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, humidity, Humidity, Tropics, temperature, [SDV.BBM.BM]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biochemistry, Molecular Biology/Molecular biology, Building and Construction, Seasonality, medicine.disease, respiratory virus, engrXiv|Engineering, bepress|Engineering|Civil and Environmental Engineering, 13. Climate action, Air conditioning, Air Pollution, Indoor, [SDV.MP.VIR]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology/Virology, Respiratory virus, Environmental science, [SDV.SPEE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie, Seasons, business
Abstract

Posté sur engrXiv le 13 juin 2021.; The incidence of several respiratory viral infections has been shown to be related to climate. Because humans spend most of their time indoors, measures of indoor climate, rather than outdoor climate, may be better predictors of disease incidence and transmission. Therefore, understanding the relationship between indoor and outdoor climate will help illuminate their influence on the seasonality of diseases caused by respiratory viruses. Indoor-outdoor relationships between temperature and humidity have been documented in temperate regions, but little information is available for tropical regions, where seasonal patterns of respiratory viral diseases differ. We have examined indoor-outdoor correlations of temperature, relative humidity (RH), and absolute humidity (AH) over a 1-year period in each of seven tropical cities. Across all cities, the average monthly indoor temperature was 25±3°C (mean ± standard deviation) with a range of 20–30°C. The average monthly indoor RH was 669% with a range of 50–78%, and the average monthly indoor AH was 153 g/m3 with a range of 10–23 g/m3. Indoor AH and RH were linearly correlated with outdoor AH when the air-conditioning (AC) was off, suggesting that outdoor AH may be a good proxy of indoor humidity in the absence of AC. All indoor measurements were more strongly correlated with outdoor measurements as distance from the equator increased. Such correlations were weaker during the wet season, especially when AC was in operation. These correlations will provide insight for assessing the seasonality of respiratory viral infections using outdoor climate data, which is more widely available than indoor data, even though transmission of these diseases mainly occurs indoors.

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2021

2. A dedicated robust instrument for water vapor generation at low humidity for use with a laser water isotope analyzer in cold and dry polar regions

Author

C. Leroy-Dos Santos, M. Casado, F. Prié, O. Jossoud, E. Kerstel, M. Farradèche, S. Kassi, E. Fourré, A. Landais, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement [Gif-sur-Yvette] (LSCE), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Glaces et Continents, Climats et Isotopes Stables (GLACCIOS), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Physique [Saint Martin d’Hères] (LIPhy ), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), Agence Nationale de la Recherche, ANR Institut Polaire Français Paul Emile Victor, IPEV: 1110, 1205 Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation: 2487, Financial support. This research has been supported by the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation: 2487, Acknowledgements. The development presented in this paper was largely inspired by the initial PhD work of Janek Landsberg, which we gratefully acknowledge here. The research leading to these results has received funding from the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation 'ANTARCTIC-SNOW' program, the ANR 'EAIIST' project and the ADELISE 'CNRS-LEFE' program. The deployment of this instrument in the field was made possible by the logistic support from the 'NIVO2' and ADELISE 'IPEV' programs. We thank the two reviewers for their useful comments which greatly improved the article., ANR-16-CE01-0011,EAIIST,Projet International d'exploration de la calotte polaire de l'Antarctique de l'Est(2016), and Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)

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[PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-AO-PH]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics [physics.ao-ph], Atmospheric Science, Spectrum analyzer, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, δ18O, lcsh:TA715-787, 010401 analytical chemistry, lcsh:Earthwork. Foundations, Humidity, Atmospheric sciences, Laser, 01 natural sciences, 0104 chemical sciences, law.invention, lcsh:Environmental engineering, 13. Climate action, law, Environmental science, Polar, Precipitation, lcsh:TA170-171, Spectroscopy, Water vapor, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Abstract

Obtaining precise continuous measurements of water vapor isotopic composition in dry places (polar or high-altitude regions) is an important challenge. The current limitation is the strong influence of humidity on the measured water isotopic composition by laser spectroscopy instruments for low humidity levels (below 3000 ppmv). This problem is addressed by determining the relationships between humidity and measured δ18O and δD of known water standards. Here, we present the development of a robust field instrument able to generate water vapor, down to 70 ppmv, at very stable humidity levels (average 1σ lower than 10 ppmv). This instrument, operated by a Raspberry interface, can be coupled to a commercial laser spectroscopy instrument. We checked the stability of the system as well as its accuracy when expressing the measured isotopic composition of water vapor on the VSMOW–SLAP (Vienna Standard Mean Ocean Water – Standard Light Antarctic Precipitation) scale. It proved to be highly stable during autonomous operation over more than 1 year at the East Antarctic Concordia and Dumont d'Urville stations.

Published
2021