Modeling variability in air pollution-related health damages from individual airport emissions
| Autor: | Yorghos Tripodis, Scott T. Boone, Sarav Arunachalam, Stefani L. Penn, Jonathan I. Levy, Brian C. Harvey, Wendy Heiger-Bernays |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Ozone 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences Meteorology Airports Population Air pollution 010501 environmental sciences medicine.disease_cause Atmospheric sciences 01 natural sciences Biochemistry chemistry.chemical_compound Air Pollution Ammonium Compounds medicine Humans Sulfur Dioxide Mortality education Air quality index NOx 0105 earth and related environmental sciences General Environmental Science Vehicle Emissions Pollutant education.field_of_study Air Pollutants Volatile Organic Compounds Seasonality Models Theoretical medicine.disease chemistry Environmental impact of aviation Environmental science Nitrogen Oxides Particulate Matter |
| Zdroj: | Environmental research. 156 |
| ISSN: | 1096-0953 |
| Popis: | In this study, we modeled concentrations of fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ) and ozone (O 3 ) attributable to precursor emissions from individual airports in the United States, developing airport-specific health damage functions (deaths per 1000 t of precursor emissions) and physically-interpretable regression models to explain variability in these functions. We applied the Community Multiscale Air Quality model using the Decoupled Direct Method to isolate PM 2.5 - or O 3 -related contributions from precursor pollutants emitted by 66 individual airports. We linked airport- and pollutant-specific concentrations with population data and literature-based concentration-response functions to create health damage functions. Deaths per 1000 t of primary PM 2.5 emissions ranged from 3 to 160 across airports, with variability explained by population patterns within 500 km of the airport. Deaths per 1000 t of precursors for secondary PM 2.5 varied across airports from 0.1 to 2.7 for NOx, 0.06 to 2.9 for SO 2 , and 0.06 to 11 for VOCs, with variability explained by population patterns and ambient concentrations influencing particle formation. Deaths per 1000 t of O 3 precursors ranged from −0.004 to 1.0 for NOx and 0.03 to 1.5 for VOCs, with strong seasonality and influence of ambient concentrations. Our findings reinforce the importance of location- and source-specific health damage functions in design of health-maximizing emissions control policies. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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