AAAR 36th Annual Conference October 16 - October 20, 2017 Raleigh Convention Center Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
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Source Contributions to Premature Mortality Attributable to Particulate Matter in India
HAO GUO, Sri Kota, Shovan Sahu, Jianlin Hu, Qi Ying, Hongliang Zhang, Louisiana State University
Abstract Number: 39 Working Group: Health Related Aerosols
Abstract Exposure to high fine particulate matter (PM2.5) concentrations significantly increases the mortality of cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases. Limited studies have been done to quantify excess mortality (ΔMort) in India due to PM2.5 exposure and the sources contributing to it. In this study, the ΔMort of adult (> 30 years old) ischemic heart dis-ease (IHD), cerebrovascular disease (CEV), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and lung cancer (LC) in 2015 in India were determined using source-oriented version of the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) model. Meteorological inputs were generated using the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model version 3.6.1. Anthropogenic emission was from Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research (EDGAR), and the biogenic emission was from the Model for Emissions of Gases and Aerosols from Nature (MEGAN) version 2.1. The open burring emissions is from National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) while dust and sea salt emissions were generated in line CMAQ. The eight tracked source types are energy, industry, residential, on-road, off-road, agriculture, open burning and dust. This reveals the health effects of air pollution and the important sources which should be targeted to reduce pollution.