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Climate Change Impacts on Air Pollution in Northern Europe

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The impacts of climate change on air pollution are discussed in the context of Northern Europe. Europe as a whole benefits from a wealth of data and statistics from the European Environment Agency and the European Monitoring and Evaluation Programme that also considers long-range transboundary air pollution and its own EU air quality standards. In this region projected future air quality levels are determined not only by climate change impacts affecting the regional to local-scale air pollution but also by climate drivers and phenomena that change hemispheric background pollution levels. This chapter reviews the impacts on air pollution in Northern Europe associated with projections of greenhouse gas emissions and emissions of pollutant primary species and precursors for the future, produced for the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC). Studies relating these air pollution impacts to future changes in air pollution-related mortality and morbidity for Europe are also presented.

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Doherty, R.M., O’Connor, F.M. (2018). Climate Change Impacts on Air Pollution in Northern Europe. In: Akhtar, R., Palagiano, C. (eds) Climate Change and Air Pollution. Springer Climate. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61346-8_5

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