The impact of residential combustion emissions on atmospheric aerosol, human health, and climate

Butt, E. W.; Rap, A.; Schmidt, A.; Scott, C. E.; Pringle, K. J.; Reddington, C. L.; Richards, N. A. D.; Woodhouse, M. T.; Ramirez-Villegas, J.; Yang, H.; Vakkari, V.; Stone, E. A.; Rupakheti, M.; S. Praveen, P.; G. van Zyl, P.; P. Beukes, J.; Josipovic, M.; Mitchell, E. J. S.; Sallu, S. M.; Forster, P. M.; Spracklen, D. V.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-873-2016

Articles | Volume 16, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-873-2016

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-873-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 16, issue 2

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26 Jan 2016

Research article |

| 26 Jan 2016

The impact of residential combustion emissions on atmospheric aerosol, human health, and climate

E. W. Butt, A. Rap, A. Schmidt, C. E. Scott, K. J. Pringle, C. L. Reddington, N. A. D. Richards, M. T. Woodhouse, J. Ramirez-Villegas, H. Yang, V. Vakkari, E. A. Stone, M. Rupakheti, P. S. Praveen, P. G. van Zyl, J. P. Beukes, M. Josipovic, E. J. S. Mitchell, S. M. Sallu, P. M. Forster, and D. V. Spracklen

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RC C6068: 'review', Jeffrey Pierce, 19 Aug 2015
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AC C8067: 'Author’s response to reviewer comments', E. W. Butt, 15 Oct 2015

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ED: Publish as is (06 Jan 2016) by Sachin S. Gunthe

AR by Edward Butt on behalf of the Authors (08 Jan 2016)

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We estimate the impact of residential emissions (cooking and heating) on atmospheric aerosol, human health, and climate. We find large contributions to annual mean ambient PM_2.5 in residential sources regions resulting in significant but uncertain global premature mortality when key uncertainties in emission flux are considered. We show that residential emissions exert an uncertain global radiative effect and suggest more work is needed to characterise residential emissions climate importance.