The impact of climate change on ozone and human health in the Eastern U.S.
Changes in ambient ozone levels are one of the many ways in which climate change could affect human health. This work investigates how climate change could alter ozone concentrations in the eastern U.S. and the subsequent impacts on human health.
Summer Ozone Levels (2050’s vs. 1990’s)
This research is one piece of a much larger project, the New York Climate and Health Project, led by Pat Kinney at Columbia University.
Publications
Patz, J. et al. (2004). NRDC Report
Collaborators
Dr. Patrick Kinney and Joyce Rosenthal, and Kim Knowlton, Columbia University; Dr. Jon Patz, University of Wisconsin; Dr. Christian Hogrefe, State University of New York at Albany; among many others including Richard Goldberg, Barry Lynn, and Cynthia Rosenzweig