Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
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Articles | Volume 21, issue 9
Articles | Volume 21, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-21-2867-2021
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Articles | Volume 21, issue 9
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22 Sep 2021
Research article |  | 22 Sep 2021

Impact of large wildfires on PM10 levels and human mortality in Portugal

Patricia Tarín-Carrasco, Sofia Augusto, Laura Palacios-Peña, Nuno Ratola, and Pedro Jiménez-Guerrero

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Uncontrolled wildfires have a substantial impact on the environment and local populations. Although most southern European countries have been impacted by wildfires in the last decades, Portugal has the highest percentage of burned area compared to its whole territory. Under this umbrella, associations between large fires, PM10, and all-cause and cause-specific mortality (circulatory and respiratory) have been explored using Poisson regression models for 2001–2016.
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