Spatially resolved estimation of ozone-related mortality in the United States under two representative concentration pathways (RCPs) and their uncertainty

Climatic Change

Volumn 128, Issue 1-2, 2015, Pages 71-84

  Kim, Young Min ^a   Zhou, Ying ^a   Gao, Yang ^b   Fu, Joshua S ^c   Johnson, Brent A ^a,e   Huang, Cheng ^d   Liu, Yang ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c University of Tennessee Knoxville   (United States)

^d GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; CLIMATE MODELS; EMISSION CONTROL; FOSSIL FUELS; GREENHOUSE GASES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OZONE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ADAPTATION POLICIES; CLIMATE MODEL SIMULATIONS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EMISSIONS REDUCTION; HIGH-RESOLUTION MODELS; MORTALITY ESTIMATIONS; SPATIALLY RESOLVED; TROPOSPHERIC OZONE;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CARBON EMISSION; CLIMATE MODELING; ESTIMATION METHOD; GREENHOUSE GAS; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; OZONE; POLLUTION POLICY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84916939918     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: 15731480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-014-1290-1     Document Type: Article

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