ABSTRACT
In recent years there has been an explosion of interest in spatio-temporal modelling and there have been a number of noteworthy publications in this field, including Le and Zidek (2006), Cressie and Wikle (2011) and Banerjee et al. (2015). However none of these are specifically concerned with environmental epidemiology, where interest is in the relationship between human health and spatio-temporal processes of exposures to harmful agents. This might be, for example, the relationship between deaths and air pollution concentrations or future climate simulations, the latter of which may involve 1000’s of monitoring sites that gather data about the underlying multivariate spatio-temporal field of precipitation and temperature. Although the main concern may be the effects on human health there may be other effects, for example acid precipitation and its negative impact on the flora and fauna in addition to those related to human health.
