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El Niño and health risks from landscape fire emissions in southeast Asia

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  • Miriam E. Marlier

    (Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University)

  • Ruth S. DeFries

    (Evolution, and Environmental Biology, Columbia University)

  • Apostolos Voulgarakis

    (NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Columbia University
    Present address: Department of Physics, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, UK)

  • Patrick L. Kinney

    (Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University)

  • James T. Randerson

    (University of California)

  • Drew T. Shindell

    (NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Columbia University)

  • Yang Chen

    (University of California)

  • Greg Faluvegi

    (NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Columbia University)

Abstract

Emissions from landscape fires affect both climate and air quality. This study uses satellite-derived fire estimates and atmospheric modelling to quantify the effects on health from fire emissions in southeast Asia from 1997 to 2006. Strong El Nino years are found to increase the incidence of fires, in addition to those caused by anthropogenic land use change, leading to an additional 200 days per year when the WHO atmospheric particle target is exceeded and increase adult mortality by 2%. Reducing regional deforestation and degradation, and thereby forest fires caused by land use change would therefore improve public health.

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  • Miriam E. Marlier & Ruth S. DeFries & Apostolos Voulgarakis & Patrick L. Kinney & James T. Randerson & Drew T. Shindell & Yang Chen & Greg Faluvegi, 2013. "El Niño and health risks from landscape fire emissions in southeast Asia," Nature Climate Change, Nature, vol. 3(2), pages 131-136, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcli:v:3:y:2013:i:2:d:10.1038_nclimate1658
    DOI: 10.1038/nclimate1658
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