10th International Aerosol Conference September 2 - September 7, 2018 America's Center Convention Complex St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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Health and Economic Effects of Wildfire in US
KAIYU CHEN, Hao Guo, Hongliang Zhang, Louisiana State University
Abstract Number: 126 Working Group: Aerosol Exposure
Abstract Nowadays wildfire is the largest source of air pollutants that greatly changes landscape with impacts on human health, large scale climate changes, social economy and ecosystem in the U.S. The Community Multi-scale Air Quality (CMAQ) model is applied to simulate potential impacts on air pollutants due to wildfire in 2011. The National Emissions Inventory (NEI) 2011 is used to generate anthropogenic emissions with the Sparse Matrix Operator Kernel Emissions (SMOKE) emission processing model. The wildfire emissions are generated based on the fire inventory from National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). Contributions of wildfires to air pollutants concentrations are quantified and the estimate health and economic outcomes are estimated using the US EPA developed Environmental Benefits Mapping and Analysis Program (BenMAP). Premature mortality, non-fatal heart attacks, aggravated asthma and economic risk are estimated to represent impact of wildfire and help to improve air quality controlling strategy.