GH11C:
Short-Lived Pollutants in the Human–Climate System Posters


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Session ID#: 51182

Session Description:
Human activity generates two broad classes of emissions – long-lived greenhouse gases (LLGHGs) like carbon dioxide, and short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs) like surface ozone, aerosol particulate matter, and their precursors – that impact human health through changes in both climate and air quality. Since SLCPs and LLGHGs are co-emitted, full understanding of health impacts requires that both their interactions with the general circulation and their human consequences be considered together. Moreover, understanding global health will require new analysis across many regions, since existing estimates in developing countries are commonly extrapolated from studies in wealthy countries – an assumption that may not be valid. Within this context, this session will prioritize analyses that: (a) jointly address regional climate and pollution dynamics and distributions; (b) include new empirical estimates of impacts on any dimension of human health; and (c) emphasize global impacts and/or impacts in developing countries.
Primary Convener:  Sam Heft-Neal, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
Conveners:  Jennifer A Burney, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States and Kate Ricke, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Sam Heft-Neal, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
Chairs:  Sam Heft-Neal, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, Jennifer A Burney, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, United States and Kate Ricke, Carnegie Institution for Science, Washington, DC, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Sam Heft-Neal, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
Index Terms:

0230 Impacts of climate change: human health [GEOHEALTH]
0305 Aerosols and particles [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1637 Regional climate change [GLOBAL CHANGE]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Measurement-Based Assessment of Health Burdens from Long-Term Ozone Exposure in the United States, Europe, and China (404844)
Karl Seltzer, US EPA, Durham, NC, United States, Drew T Shindell, Duke University, Nicholas School of the Environment, Durham, United States and Christopher Malley, University of York, Stockholm Environment Institute, York, United Kingdom
Connecting regional aerosol emissions reductions to mean and extreme precipitation responses (Invited) (397421)
Daniel M Westervelt, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, United States, Andrew J Conley, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Atmospheric Chemistry Observations & Modeling, Boulder, CO, United States, Arlene M Fiore, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, United States, Michael J Previdi, Columbia University, Lamont‐Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, United States, Drew T Shindell, Duke University, Nicholas School of the Environment, Durham, United States, Nora Rose Mascioli, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States, Gustavo J P Correa, Columbia University, Palisades, United States and J F Lamarque, NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States
Dependence of the Global Burden of Aerosol-Driven Societal Impacts on the Geographic Location of Emissions (Invited) (365300)
Geeta Persad, Carnegie Institution for Science Stanford, Stanford, CA, United States, Jennifer A Burney, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, United States, Marshall Burke, Stanford University, Earth System Science, Stanford, CA, United States, Sam Heft-Neal, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, Eran Bendavid, Stanford University, Stanford, United States, Jonathan Proctor, Harvard University, Center for the Environment, Cambridge, United States and Ken Caldeira, Gates Ventures, Kirkland, United States
Global Burden of Dementia Attributable to PM2.5 Exposure (397117)
Muye Ru, Duke University, Earth and Ocean Science, Durham, NC, United States and Drew T Shindell, Duke University, Nicholas School of the Environment, Durham, United States

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