Synoptic weather typing applied to air pollution mortality among the elderly in 10 Canadian cities

Environmental Research

Volumn 126, Issue , 2013, Pages 66-75

  Vanos, Jennifer K ^a   Cakmak, Sabit ^a   Bristow, Corben ^b   Brion, Vladislav ^a   Tremblay, Neil ^a   Martin, Sara L ^c   Sheridan, Scott S ^d  

^a HEALTH CANADA   (Canada)

^b STATISTICS CANADA   (Canada)

^c OTTAWA RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTRE   (Canada)

^d KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute health effects; Air pollutants; Relative mortality risk; Synoptic scale classification; Weather types

Indexed keywords

CARBON MONOXIDE; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; OZONE; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

AGE; AGING POPULATION; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CARBON MONOXIDE; HEALTH RISK; MORTALITY; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; OZONE; POLLUTANT; SULFUR DIOXIDE; WEATHER;

AGED; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; CANADA; CITY; EXPOSURE; HUMAN; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SPRING; SUMMER; WEATHER; WINTER;

CANADA;

ACUTE HEALTH EFFECTS; AIC; AIR POLLUTANTS; AKAIKE′S INFORMATION CRITERIA; CARBON MONOXIDE; CO; DM; DP; DRY MODERATE; DRY POLAR; DRY TROPICAL; DT; GENERALIZED LINEAR MODEL; GLM; MM; MOIST MODERATE; MOIST POLAR; MOIST TROPICAL; MP; MT; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; NO(2); O(3); OZONE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PM; POPULATION WEIGHTED MEAN; PWM; RELATIVE MORTALITY RISK; RR; SO(2); SULPHUR DIOXIDE; SYNOPTIC SCALE CLASSIFICATION; TR; TRANSITIONAL; WEATHER TYPES;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; CANADA; CITIES; GASES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; WEATHER;

EID: 84885866347     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2013.08.003     Document Type: Article

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