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DOI	10.1088/1748-9326/ab8496
	Impact on air quality and health due to the Saddleworth Moor fire in northern England
	Graham A.M.; Pope R.J.; Pringle K.P.; Arnold S.; Chipperfield M.P.; Conibear L.A.; Butt E.W.; Kiely L.; Knote C.; McQuaid J.B.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	17489318
卷号	15 期号:7
英文摘要	On June 24th 2018 one of the largest UK wildfires in recent history broke out on Saddleworth Moor, close to Manchester, in north-west England. Since wildfires close to large populations in the UK have been relatively small and rare in the past, there is little knowledge about the impacts. This has prevented the development of effective strategies to reduce them. This paper uses a high-resolution coupled atmospheric-chemistry model to assess the impact of the fires on particulate matter with a diameter less than 2.5 µm (PM2.5) across the region and the impact on health from short-term exposure. We find that the fires substantially degraded air quality. PM2.5 concentrations increased by more than 300% in Oldham and Manchester and up to 50% in areas up to 80 km away such as Liverpool and Wigan. This led to one quarter of the population (2.9 million people) in the simulation domain (-4.9-0.7°E and 53.0-54.4°N) being exposed to moderate PM2.5 concentrations on at least one day, according to the Daily Air Quality Index (36-53 µg m-3), between June 23rd and 30th 2018. This equates to 4.5 million people being exposed to PM2.5 above the WHO 24-hour guideline of 25 µg m-3 on at least one day. Using a concentration-response function we calculate the short-term health impact, which indicates that in total over the 7-day period 28 (95% CI: 14.1-42.1) deaths were brought forward, with a mean daily excess mortality of 3.5 deaths per day (95% CI: 1.8-5.3). The excess mortalities from PM2.5 from the fires represented up to 60% of the total excess mortality (5.7 of 9.5 excess deaths), representing an increase of 3.8 excess mortalities (165% increase) compared to if there were no fires. We find the impact of mortality due to PM2.5 from the fires on the economy was also substantial ( 21.1 m). © 2020 The Author(s). Published by IOP Publishing Ltd.
英文关键词	air quality; health impact assessment; human health; PM2.5; Saddleworth moor; UK; wildfires
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Air quality; Atmospheric chemistry; Health; Wetlands; Air quality indices; Atmospheric chemistry model; Northern England; Particulate Matter; PM2.5 concentration; Response functions; Short-term exposure; Simulation domain; Fires; air quality; environmental impact; fire; health impact; England; United Kingdom
来源期刊	Environmental Research Letters
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/153931
作者单位	Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, United Kingdom; National Centre for Earth Observation, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, United Kingdom; Meteorological Institute, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Graham A.M.,Pope R.J.,Pringle K.P.,et al. Impact on air quality and health due to the Saddleworth Moor fire in northern England[J],2020,15(7).
APA	Graham A.M..,Pope R.J..,Pringle K.P..,Arnold S..,Chipperfield M.P..,...&McQuaid J.B..(2020).Impact on air quality and health due to the Saddleworth Moor fire in northern England.Environmental Research Letters,15(7).
MLA	Graham A.M.,et al."Impact on air quality and health due to the Saddleworth Moor fire in northern England".Environmental Research Letters 15.7(2020).