Monitoring, Modeling, and Forecasting Fire Emissions, Smoke, and its Health Impacts
Monitoring, Modeling, and Forecasting Fire Emissions, Smoke, and its Health Impacts
Session ID#: 120764
Session Description:
Fire is one of the most dominant ecosystem disturbance agents and landscape management tools worldwide. Biomass burning produces a large volume of pollutants which can be transported over thousands of miles or occur in proximity to populated areas and have a substantial impact within their immediate surroundings. Previous studies have uncovered evidence of detrimental effects of fire emissions on respiratory, cardiovascular, mental and perinatal health. With the projected increase in fire occurrence, fire emissions are becoming a prominent public health concern. The Group on Earth Observations (GEO) Health Community of Practice has prioritized the development of a framework to monitor and forecast fire impacts of the health of populations within its work plan for 2019. In this session we invite research projects quantifying and forecasting emissions, smoke chemistry and transport, and exposure levels to wildfire smoke at local to regional scales as well as explicit linkages to health outcomes.
Co-Sponsor(s):
- AMS: American Meteorological Society -
- APHA: American Public Health Association -
- ISEE: International Society of Environmental Epidemiology -
- ISES: International Society of Exposure Science -
Index Terms:
0230 Impacts of climate change: human health [GEOHEALTH]
0345 Pollution: urban and regional [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
4315 Monitoring, forecasting, prediction [NATURAL HAZARDS]
4322 Health impact [NATURAL HAZARDS]
Primary Convener: Nancy H F French, Michigan Technological University, Michigan Tech Research Institute, Houghton, MI, United States
Conveners: Tatiana V Loboda, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States and Allison E Baer, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States
Primary Liaison: Tatiana V Loboda, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States
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