A21C:
Atmospheric Air Pollution and Public Health: Why Urban Aerosols Are So Toxic? II Posters

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Session ID#: 25815

Session Description:
The urban air pollution situation in many Asian and South-American cities is getting increasingly critical. Despite stringent clear air pollution legislation, even in US or European cities such as in Paris, France or Bakersfield, USA the rate of dangerous air pollution episodes is still very high and partially further increasing. On the one hand, the knowledge on specific causes of the air-pollution related-health effects and the underlying environmental and atmospheric processes such as aging of emissions, formation of secondary aerosols etc. is incomplete. On the other hand, epidemiological studies clearly prove the large impact of air pollution onto public health. In this interdisciplinary session environmental-, climate- and atmospherics-scientists, biologists and health effect researchers, analytical chemists and air pollution experts shall discuss the toxicological causes and the influence of climate, weather, emission-types and -mixtures onto the adverse health effects of air pollution. Furthermore intelligent abatement and monitoring strategies will be covered.
Primary Convener:  Ralf Zimmermann, Joint Mass Spectrometry Centre, Rostock University (Analyt. Chem.) & Helmholtz Zentrum München (HMGU/ CMA), Rostock/ Munich, Germany
Convener:  Barbara Rothen-Rutishauser, University of Fribourg, BioNanomaterials, Adolphe Merkle Institute, Fribourg, Switzerland
Chairs:  Barbara Rothen-Rutishauser, University of Fribourg, Bergen, Norway and Ralf Zimmermann, HICE - Helmholtz Virtual Institute of Complex Molecular Systems in Environmental Health, Www.Hice-Vi.Eu, Germany
OSPA Liaison:  Ralf Zimmermann, HICE - Helmholtz Virtual Institute of Complex Molecular Systems in Environmental Health, Www.Hice-Vi.Eu, Germany
Index Terms:

0305 Aerosols and particles [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0322 Constituent sources and sinks [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0345 Pollution: urban and regional [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0365 Troposphere: composition and chemistry [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Fine particles from Independence Day fireworks events: chemical characterization and source apportionment (229213)
Jie Zhang1, Sara Lance2, Jeffrey Michael Freedman3, Sun Yele4, Brain Crandall1, Xiuli Wei1 and James Jerome Schwab3, (1)University at Albany State University of New York, ASRC, Albany, NY, United States, (2)University at Albany State University of New York, University at Albany, Atmospheric Sciences Research Center, Albany, United States, (3)University at Albany State University of New York, Atmospheric Sciences Research Center, Albany, United States, (4)Insititute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Boundary Layer Physics and Atmospheric Chemistry, Beijing, China
Minor and Trace Element Chemistry of Urban NS-Soot from the Central Valley of CA, USA (257485)
Samantha Joelle Kleich, University of Wisconsin Eau Claire, Eau Claire, WI, United States and Robert Hooper, Univ Wisconsin, Eau Claire, WI, United States
An Assessment of Fine Particulate (PM2.5) Air Pollution in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (274390)
Shedrack R. Nayebare1,2, Haider Abbas Khwaja1,2, Omar Siraj Aburizaiza3, Azhar Siddique4, Jahan Zeb3, Mirza M Hussain5, Fida Khatib5, Donald Ray Blake6 and David O Carpenter1, (1)University at Albany State University of New York, Albany, NY, United States, (2)Wadsworth Center, Albany, NY, United States, (3)King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, (4)Ministry of Public Health, Doha, Qatar, (5)NYSDOH/Empire State Plaza, Albany, NY, United States, (6)University of California Irvine, Department of Chemistry, Irvine, United States
Mean Streets: An analysis on street level pollution in NYC (301288)
Granville Parker, CUNY New York City College of Technology, Brooklyn, NY, United States
Concentrations and Size Distributions of Trace Metals in Particulate Matter in Urban New Jersey: Preliminary Results from the Newly Established Rutgers Newark Urban Air Quality Observatory. (300751)
Oren Rabinovich, Rutgers University Newark, Newark, NJ, United States and Yuan Gao, Rutgers University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Newark, NJ, United States
Ecotoxicity of water-soluble PM1, PM2.5 and PM10 aerosols at Gosan Climate Observatory (GCO) in Jeju, Korea (297574)
Joo-Ae Kim1, Meehye Lee1, Hye-On Yoon2 and Min-Suk Bae3, (1)Korea University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul, South Korea, (2)Korea Basic Science Institute, Seoul, South Korea, (3)Mokpo National University, Department of Environmental Engineering, Muan-gun, South Korea
High-resolution sampling and analysis of air particulate matter in the Pear River Delta region of Southern China: source apportionment and health risk assessment (272453)
Shengzhen Zhou, School of Atmosphere Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, School of Atmospheric Sciences, Guangzhou, China, Perry K. Day, Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences, Lower Hutt, New Zealand and Xuemei Wang, Jinan University, School of Atmospheric Sciences, Guangzhou, China
Modelling Poly-Aromatic Hydrocarbons “online” with the GEOS-Chem Europe and Asia regional models. (270561)
Peter Ivatt, Goddard Earth Sciences Technology and Research, Greenbelt, United States and Mathew J Evans, National Centre for Atmospheric Science, York, United Kingdom
Assessing the influence of land use land cover pattern, socio economic factors and air quality status to predict morbidity on the basis of logistic based regression model (250777)
Ankur Dixit, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Centre for Atmospheric Sciences, New Delhi, India and Vivek Kumar Singh, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India

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