@inproceedings{065d09ce227a40778634ba43aea34308,
title = "Spatio-Temporal Monitoring and Modelling of Birch Pollen in Belgium",
abstract = "Air quality is primordially affected by anthropogenic emissions and has a tremendous impact on human health with more than 6 million premature deaths worldwide in 2015 (Landrigan et al. in The Lancet Commission on pollution and health, 2017) [3]. Biogenic emissions of aerosols such as pollen also impact the human wellbeing. The industrialized world suffers from a global increase in the burden of allergic respiratory diseases. Air pollution can influence both allergens and allergic subjects by increasing the immune reaction, and/or by an intensified biogenic emissions. In Europe, a quarter of the population suffers from pollinosis, whereas in some countries the prevalence is over 40%. To date, pollen of various trees and grasses in Belgium are monitored by the Belgian Scientific Institute for Public Health (Sciensano) at five stations on a daily basis. This sparse sampling cannot cover the spatial representativeness of the airborne pollen. Chemistry Transport Models (CTM{\textquoteright}s) are therefore an interesting tool to both quantify and forecast its spatial and temporal distribution. Here we show the results of the spatio-temporal modelled birch pollen over Belgium using the CTM SILAM. This model is driven by 2008 ECMWF meteorological data and a MACC-III birch tree fraction map showing the spatial distribution of potential pollen sources. Pollen modelling is based on the temperature degree days approach.",
keywords = "Birch, CTM, Health, Pollen, SILAM",
author = "Andy Delcloo and Verstraeten, {Willem W.} and Sebastien Dujardin and Nicolas Bruffaerts and Marijke Hendrickx and Rafiq Hamdi and Mikhail Sofiev",
year = "2020",
month = jan,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-030-22055-6_12",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783030220549",
series = "Springer Proceedings in Complexity",
publisher = "Springer",
pages = "71--75",
editor = "Clemens Mensink and Wanmin Gong and Amir Hakami",
booktitle = "Air Pollution Modeling and its Application XXVI",
note = "36th International Technical Meeting on Air Pollution Modeling and its Application, ITM 2018 ; Conference date: 14-05-2018 Through 18-05-2018",
}