A multi-analysis approach for estimating regional health impacts from the 2017 Northern California wildfires
Susan O’Neill, Minghui Diao, Sean Raffuse, Mohammad Z. Al‐Hamdan, M. G. Barik, Yiqin Jia, Steve Reid, Yufei Zou, Daniel Tong, J. Jason West, Joseph L. Wilkins, Amy Marsha, F. Freedman, Jason Vargo, Narasimhan K. Larkin, Ernesto Alvarado, Patti Loesche
Abstract
exposure during the smoke episode was 83 (95% confidence interval: 0, 196) with 47% of these deaths attributable to the wildland fire smoke. This illustrates the profound effect that even a 12-day exposure to wildland fire smoke can have on human health.
Topics & Concepts
CMAQAir quality indexEnvironmental scienceWeather Research and Forecasting ModelMeteorologyClimatologyGeographyGeologyFire effects on ecosystemsAtmospheric chemistry and aerosolsAtmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics