Air quality models as tools for risk analisis

Abstract

Air pollution is a known hazard to human and environmental health. Susceptibility, differential exposure, differential preparedness, and coping ability are not uniform within populations. For this reason, the differential risk assessment is to have a good description of the vulnerabilities associated with the population studied. Also, it has levels of air pollution throughout the study region. Air quality models are presented here as efficient tools for the determination of hazardous atmospheres and threat zones. Also, these are useful for the identification of different sources and their relative contributions.