High-resolution modelling of health impacts and related external cost from air pollution using the integrated model system EVA

Abstract

EVA (Economic Valuation of Air pollution), a multi-scale and high-resolution integrated model system for assessing health impacts and related external costs from air pollution), has been further developed by implementing the air quality model, UBM, with a 1 km × 1 km resolution covering the whole of Denmark. The high-resolution model is coupled to the long-range chemistry-transport model DEHM (Danish Eulerian Hemispheric Model) in a configuration with four nested domains. By using this system, a high-resolution assessment of health impacts from air pollution and related external cost has been conducted for Denmark for the year 2012.