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Premature deaths attributed to source-specific BC emissions in six urban US regions [1]

Recent studies have shown that exposure to particulate black carbon (BC) has significant adverse health effects and may be more detrimental to human health than exposure to PM2.5 as a whole. Mobile source BC emission controls, mostly on diesel-burning vehicles, have successfully decreased mobile source BC emissions to less than half of what they were 30 years ago. Quantification of the benefits of previous emissions controls conveys the value of these regulatory actions and provides a method by which future control alternatives could be evaluated. In this study we use the adjoint of the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) model to estimate highly-resolved spatial distributions of benefits related to emission reductions for six urban regions within the continental US. Emissions from outside each of the six chosen regions account for between 7% and 27% of the premature deaths attributed to exposure to BC within the region.

Original Source [2]

Publication Date: 
06/11/2015
Matthew D Turner [3], Daven K Henze [4], Shannon L Capps & et al [5]
Environmental Research Letters [6]
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Tags:
Black Carbon [7], Health Effects [8], PM 2.5 [9], Diesel [10], Vehicular Pollution [11], Air Pollution [12], United States Of America (US) [13], Urban Air Quality [14]

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[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/feature-article/premature-deaths-attributed-source-specific-bc-emissions-six-urban-us-regions
[2] http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/10/11/114014;jsessionid=6474AE6CFDDED372F4DE23AEE0AD36EE.c2.iopscience.cld.iop.org
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/matthew-d-turner
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/daven-k-henze
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/shannon-l-capps-et-al
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/journal/environmental-research-letters
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/black-carbon
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/health-effects
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/pm-25
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/diesel
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/vehicular-pollution
[12] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/air-pollution
[13] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/united-states-america-us
[14] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/urban-air-quality