National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), Environmental Health Perspectives, 5(121), p. 572-579, 2013
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1205561
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Background: Decision making regarding air pollution can be better informed if air quality impacts are traced back to individual emission sources. Adjoint or backward sensitivity analysis is a modeling tool that can achieve this goal by allowing for quantification of how emissions from sources in different locations influence human health metrics.