Mortality induced by PM2.5 exposure following the 1783 Laki eruption using reconstructed meteorological fields

• Published in: Scientific Reports
• Main Authors: Balkanski, Y., Menut, L., Wang, R., Evangeliou, Nikolaos, Jourdain, S., Eschstruth, C., Vrac, M, Yiou, P.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Laki; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2570114; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-34228-7

The 1783–1784 Laki eruption provides a natural experiment to evaluate the performance of chemistry-transport models in predicting the health impact of air particulate pollution. There are few existing daily meteorological observations during the second part of the 18th century. Hence, creating reaso...