• African biomass burning affects aerosol cycling over the Amazon 

      Holanda, Bruna A.; Franco, Marco A.; Walter, David; Artaxo, Paulo; Carbone, Samara; Cheng, Yafang; Chowdhury, Sourangsu; Ditas, Florian; Gysel-Beer, Martin; Klimach, Thomas; Kremper, Leslie A.; Krüger, Ovid O.; Lavric, Jost V.; Lelieveld, Jos; Ma, Chaoqun; Machado, Luiz A. T.; Modini, Robin L.; Morais, Fernando G.; Pozzer, Andrea; Saturno, Jorge; Su, Hang; Wendisch, Manfred; Wolff, Stefan; Pöhlker, Mira L.; Andreae, Meinrat O.; Pöschl, Ulrich; Pöhlker, Christopher (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Smoke from vegetation fires affects air quality, atmospheric cycling, and the climate in the Amazon rain forest. A major unknown has remained the quantity of long-range transported smoke from Africa in relation to local ...
    • Air pollution and child health impacts of decarbonization in 16 global cities: Modelling study 

      Milner, James; Hughes, Robert; Chowdhury, Sourangsu; Picetti, Roberto; Ghosh, Rakesh; Yeung, Shunmay; Lelieveld, Jos; Dangour, Alan D.; Wilkinson, Paul (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Most research on the air pollution-related health effects of decarbonization has focused on adults. We assess the potential health benefits that could be achieved in children and young people in a global sample of 16 cities ...
    • Air pollution impacts on in-hospital case-fatality rate of ischemic stroke patients 

      Keller, Karsten; Haghi, Seyed Hamed Rastguye; Hahad, Omar; Schmidtmann, Irene; Chowdhury, Sourangsu; Lelieveld, Jos; Münzel, Thomas; Hobohm, Lukas (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Background: A growing body of evidence suggests that air pollution exposure is associated with an increased risk for cardiovascular diseases. Data regarding the impact of long-term air pollution exposure on ischemic stroke ...
    • Black carbon aerosol reductions during COVID-19 confinement quantified by aircraft measurements over Europe 

      Krüger, Ovid O.; Holanda, Bruna A.; Chowdhury, Sourangsu; Pozzer, Andrea; Walter, David; Pöhlker, Christopher; Hernández, Maria Dolores Andrés; Burrows, John P.; Voigt, Christiane; Lelieveld, Jos; Quaas, Johannes; Pöschl, Ulrich; Pöhlker, Mira L. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      The abrupt reduction in human activities during the first lockdown of the COVID-19 pandemic created unprecedented atmospheric conditions. To quantify the changes in lower tropospheric air pollution, we conducted the BLUESKY ...
    • Guidelines for Modeling and Reporting Health Effects of Climate Change Mitigation Actions 

      Hess, Jeremy J.; Ranadive, Nikhil; Boyer, Chris; Aleksandrowicz, Lukasz; Anenberg, Susan C.; Aunan, Kristin; Belesova, Kristine; Bell, Michelle L.; Bickersteth, Sam; Bowen, Kathryn; Burden, Merci; Campbell-Lendrum, Diarmid; Carlton, Elisabeth; Cissé, Guéladio; Cohen, Francois; Dai, Hancheng; Dangour, Alan David; Dasgupta, Purnamita; Frumkin, Howard; Gong, Peng; Gould, Robert J.; Haines, Andy; Hales, Simon; Hamilton, Ian; Hasegawa, Tomoko; Hashizume, Masachiro; Honda, Yusushi; Horton, Daniel E.; Karambelas, Alexandra; Kim, HO; Kim, Satbyul Estella; Kinney, Patrick L.; Koné, Inza; Knowlton, Kim; Lelieveld, Jos; Limaye, Vijay S.; Liu, Quyong; Madaniyazi, Lina; Martinez, Micaela Elvira; Mauzerall, Denise L.; Milner, James; Neville, Tara; Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark; Pachauri, Shonali; Perera, Frederica P.; Pineo, Helen; Remais, Justin V.; Saari, Rebecca K.; Sampedro, Jon; Scheelbeek, Pauline; Schwartz, Joel; Shindell, Drew; Syamsundar, Priya; Taylor, Timothy J.; Tonne, Cathryn; Vuuren, Detlef Van; Wang, Can; Watts, Nicholas; West, J. Jason; Wilkinson, Paul; Wood, Stephen A.; Woodcock, James; Woodward, Alistair; Xie, Yang; Zhang, Ying; Ebi, Kristie L. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      Background: Modeling suggests that climate change mitigation actions can have substantial human health benefits that accrue quickly and locally. Documenting the benefits can help drive more ambitious and health-protective ...
    • Numerical simulation and evaluation of global ultrafine particle concentrations at the Earth's surface 

      Kohl, Matthias; Lelieveld, Jos; Chowdhury, Sourangsu; Ehrhart, Sebastian; Sharma, Disha; Cheng, Yafang; Tripathi, Sachchida Nand; Sebastian, Mathew; Pandithurai, Govindan; Wang, Hongli; Pozzer, Andrea (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      A new global dataset of annually averaged ultrafine particle (UFP) concentrations at the Earth's surface for the years 2015–2017 has been developed through numerical simulations using the ECHAM/MESSy Atmospheric Chemistry ...
    • Spatial and sector-specific contributions of emissions to ambient air pollution and mortality in European cities: a health impact assessment 

      Khomenko, Sasha; Pisoni, Enrico; Thunis, Philippe; Bessagnet, Bertrand; Cirach, Marta; Iungman, Tamara; Barboza, Evelise Pereira; Khreis, Haneen; Mueller, Natalie; Tonne, Cathryn; de Hoogh, Kees; Hoek, Gerard; Chowdhury, Sourangsu; Lelieveld, Jos; Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Ambient air pollution is a major risk to health and wellbeing in European cities. We aimed to estimate spatial and sector-specific contributions of emissions to ambient air pollution and evaluate the effects of source-specific ...