Journal article
Differences between magnitudes and health impacts of BC emissions across the United States using 12 km scale seasonal source apportionment
Environmental science & technology, v 49(7), pp 4362-4371
07 Apr 2015
PMID: 25729920
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Abstract
Recent assessments have analyzed the health impacts of PM2.5 from emissions from different locations and sectors using simplified or reduced-form air quality models. Here we present an alternative approach using the adjoint of the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) model, which provides source-receptor relationships at highly resolved sectoral, spatial, and temporal scales. While damage resulting from anthropogenic emissions of BC is strongly correlated with population and premature death, we found little correlation between damage and emission magnitude, suggesting that controls on the largest emissions may not be the most efficient means of reducing damage resulting from anthropogenic BC emissions. Rather, the best proxy for locations with damaging BC emissions is locations where premature deaths occur. Onroad diesel and nonroad vehicle emissions are the largest contributors to premature deaths attributed to exposure to BC, while onroad gasoline emissions cause the highest deaths per amount emitted. Emissions in fall and winter contribute to more premature deaths (and more per amount emitted) than emissions in spring and summer. Overall, these results show the value of the high-resolution source attribution for determining the locations, seasons, and sectors for which BC emission controls have the most effective health benefits.
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- Title
- Differences between magnitudes and health impacts of BC emissions across the United States using 12 km scale seasonal source apportionment
- Creators
- Matthew D Turner - †Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309, United StatesDaven K Henze - †Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309, United StatesAmir Hakami - ‡Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario K1S 5B6, CanadaShunliu Zhao - ‡Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario K1S 5B6, CanadaJaroslav Resler - §Nonlinear Modeling, Institute of Computer Science, Prague 182 07, Czech RepublicGregory R Carmichael - ∥Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, United StatesCharles O Stanier - ∥Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, United StatesJaemeen Baek - ∥Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, United StatesAdrian Sandu - ⊥Computer Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, United StatesArmistead G RussellAthanasios Nenes - ▲School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United StatesGill-Ran Jeong - ◇Korea Institute of Atmospheric Prediction Systems, Seoul 156-849, Republic of KoreaShannon L Capps - □Atmospheric Modeling and Analysis Division, U.S. EPA, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27711, United StatesPeter B Percell - ◆Department of Geosciences, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77004, United StatesRob W Pinder - □Atmospheric Modeling and Analysis Division, U.S. EPA, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27711, United StatesSergey L Napelenok - □Atmospheric Modeling and Analysis Division, U.S. EPA, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27711, United StatesJesse O Bash - □Atmospheric Modeling and Analysis Division, U.S. EPA, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27711, United StatesTianfeng Chai - △Air Resources Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, College Park, Maryland 20740, United States
- Publication Details
- Environmental science & technology, v 49(7), pp 4362-4371
- Publisher
- American Chemical Society; Washington, DC
- Grant note
- P30 ES005605 / NIEHS NIH HHS
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000352659000043
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-84926443124
- Other Identifier
- 991014878127004721
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