Estimation of future PM2.5- and ozone-related mortality over the continental United States in a changing climate: An application of high-resolution dynamical downscaling technique

Journal of the Air and Waste Management Association

Volumn 65, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 611-623

  Sun, Jian ^a   Fu, Joshua S ^a   Huang, Kan ^a   Gao, Yang ^b  

^a University of Tennessee Knoxville   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CLIMATE MODELS; EMISSION CONTROL; GAS EMISSIONS; GREENHOUSE GASES; METHANE; POPULATION STATISTICS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ANTHROPOGENIC EMISSIONS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DYNAMICAL DOWNSCALING; ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; LINEARLY PROPORTIONAL; PM2.5 CONCENTRATION; PREMATURE MORTALITY;

OZONE;

METHANE; OZONE; AIR POLLUTANT; PARTICULATE MATTER;

AIR POLLUTANT; AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; CARBON FOOTPRINT; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MORTALITY; PARTICULATE MATTER; POPULATION GROWTH; PREDICTION; PREMATURE MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GEOGRAPHY; PARTICLE SIZE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; THEORETICAL MODEL; TOXICITY;

AIR POLLUTANTS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OZONE; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84942581547     PISSN: 10962247     EISSN: 21622906     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10962247.2015.1033068     Document Type: Article

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