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CARE-C Researchers Participate at the OneSTOP Datathon Workshop in Brussels

CARE-C Researchers Participate at the OneSTOP Datathon Wo…

2025-12-08
Researchers of CARE-C at the Cyprus Institute took part in the first OneSTOP Datathon workshop, held on 25-27 Novembe…
The Cyprus Institute develops first global maps of ultrafine air pollution

The Cyprus Institute develops first global maps of ultraf…

2025-12-02
A new study, led by researchers of The Cyprus Institute, has produced the first global dataset of ultrafine particle …
The 4th Annual Online Workshop on Climate and Atmosphere R&I in the EMME region successfully concluded

The 4th Annual Online Workshop on Climate and Atmosphere …

2025-11-28
The 4th Annual Online Workshop on Climate and Atmosphere R&I in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East region,…
CARE-C’s Nanomicron at Slush 2025

CARE-C’s Nanomicron at Slush 2025

2025-11-27
Nanomicron, a spin-off company of CARE-C at the Cyprus Institute, was one of 14 Cypriot startups, led by the Research…
CARE-C researchers at the 1st Pancyprian Chemistry Conference

CARE-C researchers at the 1st Pancyprian Chemistry Confer…

2025-11-24
Researchers from CARE-C at the Cyprus Institute participated in the 1st Pancyprian Conference on Chemistry, held at t…
CARE-C leads session at Aerosol-Cloud Interaction Cluster Workshop 

CARE-C leads session at Aerosol-Cloud Interaction Cluster…

2025-11-20
The managing coordinator of CARE-C at the Cyprus Institute, Mrs Marina Papageorgiou, participated in the Aerosol-Clou…

Events

4th Annual Workshop: Climate and Atmosphere Research & Innovation in the Eastern Mediterranean & Middle East | 26 November 2025

4th Annual Workshop: Climate and Atmosphere Research &amp…

2025-09-01
The Climate and Atmosphere Research Center (CARE-C) of the Cyprus Institute, and its Advanced Partners, are organizin…
Innovation in Atmospheric Measurement Techniques Workshop 2025

Innovation in Atmospheric Measurement Techniques Workshop…

2025-03-18
Workshop Information Abstract Submission Form Workshop …
Winter School: Advanced analysis of atmosphere-surface interactions and feedbacks (3-14 March, 2025)

Winter School: Advanced analysis of atmosphere-surface in…

2025-02-21
The Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East – Climate and Atmosphere Research Centre (EMME-CARE) project consortium, le…
10th International Society for Atmospheric Research using Remotely piloted Aircraft (ISARRA) Conference | Larnaca, Cyprus | 29 – 31  October, 2025

10th International Society for Atmospheric Research using…

2025-01-27
ISARRA is a member-based, non-profit society for all scientist doing atmospheric and earth science research and the n…
Autumn School: Drones & sensors in Atmospheric sciences (11 November – 15 November 2024)

Autumn School: Drones & sensors in Atmospheric scienc…

2024-05-13
The Cyprus Institute, Nicosia, Cyprus30 October – 3 November 2023
Innovation in Atmospheric Measurement Techniques Workshop 2024

Innovation in Atmospheric Measurement Techniques Workshop…

2024-03-15
Workshop Information Call for Abstracts Abstract Submis…

Research Highlight

Global high-resolution ultrafine particle number concentrations through data fusion with machine learning

Global high-resolution ultrafine particle number concentrations through data fusion with machine learning presents the first global maps of particle number concentration (PNC) and associated ultrafine particles (UFPs) at 1 km resolution over land for 2010–2019, led by the Climate and Atmosphere Research Center (CARE-C) of The Cyprus Institute in close collaboration with the Computation-based Science and Technology Research Center (CaSToRC) of The Cyprus Institute and the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry (MPIC). The study fuses long-term measurements from 155 ground stations with a rich set of global predictors, including emissions, NO₂ and PM₂.₅ fields, population and built-up volume, road networks, and key meteorological variables, using an XGBoost regression model with conformal prediction for uncertainty quantification. The model attains R2≈0.90 on an independent test set and R2 of 0.77–0.87 under spatial and temporal cross‑validation, and indicates that UFPs constitute on average about 91% of total PNC, with annual mean near-surface PNC ranging from a few thousand cm⁻³ in pristine regions to over 40,000 cm⁻³ in polluted urban centres. The resulting open-access NetCDF dataset (2010–2019) provides annual mean PNC, UFP and 95% coverage intervals on a global 1 km grid, enabling direct integration with high‑resolution population data for exposure and health impact studies.

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