Global Climate and Human Health Effects of the Gasoline and Diesel Vehicle Fleets.

ABSTRACT: The global gasoline and diesel fuel vehicle fleets impose substantial impacts on air quality, human health, and climate change. Here we quantify the global radiative forcing and human health impacts of the global gasoline and diesel sectors using the NCAR CESM global chemistry-climate model for year 2015 emissions from the IIASA GAINS inventory. Net global radiative effects of short-lived climate forcers (including aerosols, ozone, and methane) from the gasoline and diesel sectors are +13.6 and +9.4 mW m^-2, respectively. The annual mean net aerosol contributions to the net radiative effects of gasoline and diesel are -9.6 ± 2.0 and +8.8 ± 5.8 mW m^-2. Aerosol indirect effects for the gasoline and diesel road vehicle sectors are -16.6 ± 2.1 and -40.6 ± 4.0 mW m^-2</

SUBMITTER: Huang Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7065981 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature