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Climate change and airborne allergens
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Climate change and airborne allergens
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Zhang
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Yong
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1982-
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Yong Zhang
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Georgopoulos
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Panos G.
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Panos G. Georgopoulos
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chair
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Androulakis
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Yannis
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Yannis Androulakis
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internal member
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Ierapetritou
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Marianthi
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Marianthi Ierapetritou
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Robock
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Alan
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Alan Robock
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Bielory
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Leonard
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Leonard Bielory
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Rutgers University
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Graduate School - New Brunswick
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theses
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2015
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2015-01
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2015
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eng
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Climate change is expected to alter the spatiotemporal dynamics of airborne allergens and potentially increase occurrence of allergic airway disease. Climate change impact on allergenic pollen was investigated through statistical analysis and modeling of observed airborne pollen counts and climatic factors, and through simulation using a deterministic modeling system. A probabilistic exposure model was developed to study exposures to allergenic pollen during the 1990s (1994-2000) and the 2000s (2001-2010) in nine climate regions in the contiguous United States (CONUS). The allergenic pollen seasons of representative trees, weeds and grass during the 2000s across the CONUS have been observed to start 3.0 days earlier on average than in the 1990s. The average peak value and annual total of daily counted airborne pollen have increased by 42.4% and 46.0%, respectively. The deterministic modeling system consists of modules of emission, meteorology and air quality. It correctly predicted the observed pollen season start date and duration, and airborne level at the majority of monitor stations for oak and ragweed pollen, and performed reasonably well for birch, mugwort and grass pollen. Dry deposition, emission and vertical eddy diffusion were the dominant processes determining the ambient pollen concentrations. The response of the allergenic pollen season to climate change varies in different climate regions for different taxa in the CONUS. Under scenarios of regionally and economically oriented future development, the weed and grass pollen concentrations were predicted to decrease from period of 2001-2004 to 2047-2050 in the majority of regions. The number of hours in which birch and oak pollen concentrations exceed the threshold values for triggering allergy has been predicted to increase in the majority of regions. Inhalation and dermal deposition were the dominant exposure routes for allergenic pollen. The aggregated exposure to allergenic pollen in outdoor environments was more than twice as that in indoor environments during the 2000s in the CONUS. Meantime, inhalation exposure for children of 1-4 years old was two to five times higher than for other age groups. Changes in exposures to allergenic pollen between the 2000s and the 1990s varied in different climate regions for different taxa.
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Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
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Climate change
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Air--Pollution
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Allergens
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Rutgers University Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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1 online resource (xxxv, 225 p. : ill.)
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Ph.D.
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Includes bibliographical references
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by Yong Zhang
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Graduate School - New Brunswick Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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ETD doctoral
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The author owns the copyright to this work.
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Zhang
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Yong
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2014-12-17 03:52:56
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Yong Zhang
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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2015-01-31
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2015-08-02
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Access to this PDF has been restricted at the author's request. It will be publicly available after August 2nd, 2015.
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