Air Pollution, Climate, and Health
An Integrated Perspective on Their Interactions
- 1st Edition - April 14, 2021
- Editors: Meng Gao, Zifa Wang, Gregory Carmichael
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 0 1 2 3 - 7
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 0 3 9 5 - 8
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Request a sales quoteAir Pollution, Climate and Health integrates the current understanding of the issues of air pollution, climate change and human health. The book provides a comprehensive overview of these issues to help readers gain a better understanding of how they interact and impact air quality and public health. Regional examples from across the globe include issues related to PM 2.5, haze, winter pollution, heat related mortality and aerosols. These issues are addressed utilizing current research and laboratory-based, observation-based, and modeling-based analysis. This is an essential resource for all professionals investigating the impacts of climate change or air pollution on human health.
- Provides a comprehensive understanding of the interactions between climate change, air quality and human health
- Includes evidence-based findings to help clarify the mechanisms on how air pollution impacts climate and how a changing climate is impacting those pollutants
- Covers a number of pollution sources and products impacting climate change, including energy, haze, particulate matter, aerosols, PM 2.5 and transport
Researchers and professionals in Climate Change Adaptation, Climate Services, Public Health
Atmospheric Scientists, Environmental and Civil Engineers
Atmospheric Scientists, Environmental and Civil Engineers
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Part 1: General perspective
- Chapter 1: Overview of climate change, air pollution, and human health
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Dramatically growing evidence
- 3: Health effects of climate change and air pollution
- 4: Linkage and interaction between climate change and air pollution
- 5: Co-benefits of tackling climate change and air pollution
- 6: Future research and policy needs
- Part 2: Air pollution affects climate
- Chapter 2: Tropospheric ozone interacts with weather and climate
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Weather and climate influences on natural sources of ozone precursors
- 3: Weather and climate influences on ozone chemistry and deposition
- 4: Weather and climate influences on ozone transport patterns
- 5: Future ozone change driven by climate change
- 6: Feedback from tropospheric ozone change to climate
- 7: Conclusion
- Chapter 3: Direct radiative forcing induced by aerosols from emitting sectors in China and India
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Methodology
- 3: Results and discussions
- 4: Summary
- Chapter 4: The formation mechanism and radiative effect of secondary organic aerosols
- Abstract
- 1: Background
- 2: Model description
- 3: The mixing state of SOA
- 4: New SOA particles from organic nucleation
- 5: The effect of organic nucleation on the anthropogenic forcing
- 6: The indirect effect of SOA on the cirrus clouds
- 7: Discussion
- Part 3: Climate modulates air pollution
- Chapter 5: Possible influence of atmospheric circulation on haze pollution in North China
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: The links between the northern hemisphere atmospheric circulations and haze pollution in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (BTH) region
- 3: The possible influence of atmospheric circulations in the southern hemisphere on air pollution in East China
- 4: Conclusion
- Chapter 6: The impact of synoptic circulation and long-term circulation change on air quality and pollution-related human health in the Yangtze River Delta region
- Abstract
- Acknowledgments
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Data and methodology
- 3: Long-term changes in synoptic-scale circulation
- 4: Potential impacts of circulation change on surface air quality
- 5: Circulation-induced air quality impact on premature mortality
- 6: Summary and conclusions
- Chapter 7: Air quality and transboundary air pollution in China under climate change
- Abstract
- Chapter 8: Variations of Siberian High Position under climate change: Impacts on winter pollution over North China
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Data
- 3: Development of the Siberian High position index and its association with AOD
- 4: Validation of SHPI from 2001 to 2016
- 5: Future projections of SHPI and North China winter air quality
- 6: Conclusions and perspectives
- Part 4: Air pollution affects human health
- Chapter 9: Airborne particulate matter and its organic components: Complex triggers of human disease
- Acknowledgments
- Conflict of interest
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Organic composition of PM
- 3: Toxicological study
- 4: Conclusions
- Chapter 10: Associations between ambient particulate matter and lung cancer: A systematic review and meta-analyses up to 2020
- Abstract
- Acknowledgments
- Declaration of interests
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Methods
- 3: Results
- 4: Discussion
- 5: Conclusions and future perspectives
- Chapter 11: The association between PM2.5 exposure and neurological disorders
- Abstract
- 1: Fine particulate matters pollution
- 2: Neurological disorders
- 3: Methods and results of the study of the association between PM2.5 and neurological disorders
- 4: Associations between PM2.5 and neurological disorders
- 5: Conclusions
- Part 5: Climate change endangers human health
- Chapter 12: Air pollution, climate change, and reproductive health in China
- Abstract
- Acknowledgments
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Air pollution, climate change, and reproductive health
- 3: Empirical evidence from the Pearl River Delta region in China
- 4: Further research directions
- Chapter 13: Community health risk associated with weather-related air pollution events: Perspectives of urban resilience and mitigation
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Case 1: Dust storms and community health risk
- 3: Case 2: Haze events and neighborhood health burden
- 4: Urban resilience and mitigation
- Index
- No. of pages: 300
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: April 14, 2021
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128201237
- eBook ISBN: 9780128203958
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Meng Gao
Dr Meng Gao is an Assistant Professor at Hong Kong Baptist University. His research explores the formation mechanism of extreme air pollution events, and the link between climate change, air pollution and health impacts. He was invited to participate in the Atmospheric Chemistry Colloquium for Emerging Senior Scientists (ACCESS XIV) 2017. He is leading the topic related to aerosol feedbacks on air quality and climate in a large international model inter-comparison study in which 30 research groups are involved. He has published more than 30 peer-reviewed papers to date
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon Tong, Hong KongZW
Zifa Wang
Dr Zifa Wang, Professor at the Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Professor Wang is a world-renowned leader in the development of air quality models. He played an important role in the development of the CFORS (Chemical weather FORecasting System) model in Japan, and his NAQPMS (Nested Air Quality Prediction Modeling System) is widely used to predict air quality by Chinese government. He has published nearly 300 peer-reviewed publications, has earned various prestigious awards, including the second-class State Science and Technology Progress Award.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, ChinaGC
Gregory Carmichael
Dr Gregory R. Carmichael has a BS, MS and PhD in chemical engineering and has done extensive research related to air quality and its environmental impacts. He is currently the Karl Kammermeyer professor of chemical and biochemical engineering at the University of Iowa. He also serves as chair of the Environmental Pollution and Atmospheric Chemistry Scientific Steering Committee of the World Meteorological Organization. He is fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU), and fellow of American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). He is a leader in the development and application of chemical transport models at scales ranging from local to global. He has published more than 350 peer-reviewed papers to date. The majority of his recent papers deal with the development and application of chemical transport models (CTM) to studies in regional atmospheric chemistry, air quality and climate.
Affiliations and expertise
Karl Kammermeyer Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, University of Iowa, USARead Air Pollution, Climate, and Health on ScienceDirect