Source attribution of health benefits from air pollution abatement in Canada and the United States: An adjoint sensitivity analysis

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 121, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 572-579

  Joy Pappin, Amanda ^a   Hakami, Amir ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adjoint sensitivity analysis; Health benefits; Nitrogen dioxide; Ozone mortality; Source attribution

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN OXIDE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; CANADA; DEATH; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

AIR POLLUTION; CANADA; HUMANS; NITROGEN OXIDES; OZONE; UNITED STATES; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84877015925     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1205561     Document Type: Article

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