Once these linkages are developed, effective corrective strategies may be employed.
Air pollution is distributed across a wide range of spatial scales.
This distribution is governed by meteorological and chemical and processes. We will review processes governing air pollution distribution from local to global scales, and will discuss the resultant impacts on human health. The talk will touch on examples such as smoke from cooking fires in developing countries, motor vehicle air pollution, acid rain, fallout from the Chernobyl explosion, Asian dust distribution, and smoke from Southeast Asian forest fires.