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Modeling past and future spatiotemporal distributions of airborne allergenic pollen across the contiguous United States

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العنوان: Modeling past and future spatiotemporal distributions of airborne allergenic pollen across the contiguous United States
المؤلفون: Xiang Ren, Ting Cai, Zhongyuan Mi, Leonard Bielory, Christopher G. Nolte, Panos G. Georgopoulos
المصدر: Frontiers in Allergy, Vol 3 (2022)
بيانات النشر: Frontiers Media S.A., 2022.
سنة النشر: 2022
المجموعة: LCC:Immunologic diseases. Allergy
مصطلحات موضوعية: allergenic pollen, emissions and transport/fate model, climate change, CMAQ (Community Multiscale Air Quality model), CONUS (contiguous United States), Immunologic diseases. Allergy, RC581-607
الوصف: Exposures to airborne allergenic pollen have been increasing under the influence of changing climate. A modeling system incorporating pollen emissions and atmospheric transport and fate processes has been developed and applied to simulate spatiotemporal distributions of two major aeroallergens, oak and ragweed pollens, across the contiguous United States (CONUS) for both historical (year 2004) and future (year 2047) conditions. The transport and fate of pollen presented here is simulated using our adapted version of the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) model. Model performance was evaluated using observed pollen counts at monitor stations across the CONUS for 2004. Our analysis shows that there is encouraging consistency between observed seasonal mean concentrations and corresponding simulated seasonal mean concentrations (oak: Pearson = 0.35, ragweed: Pearson = 0.40), and that the model was able to capture the statistical patterns of observed pollen concentration distributions in 2004 for most of the pollen monitoring stations. Simulation of pollen levels for a future year (2047) considered conditions corresponding to the RCP8.5 scenario. Modeling results show substantial regional variability both in the magnitude and directionality of changes in pollen metrics. Ragweed pollen season is estimated to start earlier and last longer for all nine climate regions of the CONUS, with increasing average pollen concentrations in most regions. The timing and magnitude of oak pollen season vary across the nine climate regions, with the largest increases in pollen concentrations expected in the Northeast region.
نوع الوثيقة: article
وصف الملف: electronic resource
اللغة: English
تدمد: 2673-6101
Relation: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/falgy.2022.959594/full; https://doaj.org/toc/2673-6101
DOI: 10.3389/falgy.2022.959594
URL الوصول: https://doaj.org/article/e3b2d8731c3b45f0a6a33938f9b93533
رقم الانضمام: edsdoj.3b2d8731c3b45f0a6a33938f9b93533
قاعدة البيانات: Directory of Open Access Journals
الوصف
تدمد:26736101
DOI:10.3389/falgy.2022.959594