A24B:
Atmospheric Air Pollution and Public Health: Why Urban Aerosols Are So Toxic? I

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Session ID#: 33303

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:

Seasonal variations in PM composition from Beijing, China drive liver oxidative stress (249212)
Michal Pardo, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel and Yinon Rudich, Weizmann Institute of Science, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Rehovot, Israel
Environmentally Persistent Free Radical (EPFRs) – Ambient Air Particulates, Soils and Fate of Some Pollutants (254233)
Slawo M. Lomnicki, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States
Important sources and chemical species of ambient fine particles related to adverse health effects (268257)
Jongbae Heo, Busan Development Institute, Busan, South Korea
Health and cost impact of air pollution from biomass burning over the United States (226976)
Bavand Sadeghi1, Ebrahim Eslami1 and Yunsoo Choi2, (1)University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States, (2)University of Houston, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Houston, TX, United States
Evaluation of the health impact of aerosols emitted from different combustion sources: Comprehensive characterization of the aerosol physicochemical properties as well as the molecular biological and toxicological effects of the aerosols on human lung cells and macrophages.  (244370)
Ralf Zimmermann1,2, Gunnar Dittmar1,3, Tamara Kanashova1,3, Jeroen Buters1,4, Sebastian Öder1,4, Hanns Rudolf Paur1,5, Sonja Mülhopt1,5, Marco Dilger1,5, Carsten Weiss1,5, Horst Harndorf1,6, Benjamin Stengel1,6, Maija-Riita Hirvonen1,7, Jorma Jokiniemi1,7, Karsten Hiller1,8, Sean Sapcariu1,8, Olli Sippula1,7, Thorsten Streibel2, Erwin Karg2, Benedikt Weggler1,2, Jürgen Schnelle-Kreis2, Jutta Lintelmann2, Martin Sklorz2, Jürgen Orasche2, Laarnie Müller1,2, Johannes Passig1,2, Thomas Gröger2, Pasi I. Jalava7, Mikko Happo7 and Oskari Uski7, (1)HICE - Helmholtz Virtual Institute of Complex Molecular Systems in Environmental Health, Www.Hice-Vi.Eu, Germany, (2)Joint Mass Spectrometry Centre, Rostock University (Analyt. Chem.) & Helmholtz Zentrum München (HMGU/ CMA), Rostock/ Munich, Germany, (3)Max-Delbrück-Centrum, Berlin, Germany, (4)Center of Allergy and Environment (ZAUM), Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany, (5)Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany, (6)University of Rostock, Inst. of Piston Machines &Int. Combust. Engines, Rostock, Germany, (7)University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland, (8)University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg

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