Global Air Quality: An Inter-Disciplinary Approach to Exposure Assessment for Burden of Disease Analyses

Atmosphere

Vincent-Henri Peuch¹  MatthewL. Thomas²  JamesM. Salter²  Gavin Shaddick²  Guilia Ruggeri³  Pierpaulo Mudu³  Sophie Gumy³  Oksana Tarasova⁴  Alexander Baklanov⁴ 

[1] European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Reading RG2 9AX, UK;Joint Centre for Excellence in Environmental Intelligence, University of Exeter & Met Office, Exeter EX4 4PY, UK;World Health Organization, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland;World Meterological Organization, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland;

关键词: air pollution;    fine particulate matter;    PM2.5;    health effects;    global burden of disease;    data integration;   

DOI  :  10.3390/atmos12010048

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Global assessments of air quality and health require comprehensive estimates of the exposures to air pollution that are experienced by populations in every country. However, there are many countries in which measurements from ground-based monitoring are sparse or non-existent, with quality-control and representativeness providing additional challenges. While ground-based monitoring provides a far from complete picture of global air quality, there are other sources of information that provide comprehensive coverage across the globe. The World Health Organization developed the Data Integration Model for Air Quality (DIMAQ) to combine information from ground measurements with that from other sources, such as atmospheric chemical transport models and estimates from remote sensing satellites in order to produce the information that is required for health burden assessment and the calculation of air pollution-related Sustainable Development Goals indicators. Here, we show an example of the use of DIMAQ with the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service Re-Analysis (CAMSRA) of atmospheric composition, which represents the best practices in meteorology and climate monitoring that were developed under the World Meteorological Organization’s Global Atmosphere Watch programme. Estimates of PM_2.5 from CAMSRA are integrated within the DIMAQ framework in order to produce high-resolution estimates of air pollution exposure that can be aggregated in a coherent fashion to produce country-level assessments of exposures.

【 授权许可】

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