Climate change impacts on projections of excess mortality at 2030 using spatially varying ozone-temperature risk surfaces

Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 118-124

  Wilson, Ander ^a   Reich, Brian J ^b   Nolte, Christopher G ^c   Spero, Tanya L ^c   Hubbell, Bryan ^c   Rappold, Ana G ^d  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^d U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

climate change; mortality; ozone; ozone temperature interaction

Indexed keywords

OZONE;

AGED; AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; CITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MORTALITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; ANIMALS; CITIES; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OZONE; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84961391366     PISSN: 15590631     EISSN: 1559064X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/jes.2016.14     Document Type: Article

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