The global impacts of COVID-19 lockdowns on urban air pollution: A critical review and recommendations

GI Gkatzelis, JB Gilman, SS Brown, H Eskes… - Elem Sci …, 2021 - online.ucpress.edu
The coronavirus-19 (COVID-19) pandemic led to government interventions to limit the
spread of the disease which are unprecedented in recent history; for example, stay at home …

Impact of lockdown during the COVID-19 outbreak on multi-scale air quality

CD Bray, A Nahas, WH Battye, VP Aneja - Atmospheric Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
One of the multi-facet impacts of lockdowns during the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic
was restricted economic and transport activities. This has resulted in the reduction of air …

Effects of COVID-19 lockdown on global air quality and health

F Liu, M Wang, M Zheng - Science of the Total Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 pandemic has put much of the world into lockdown, as one unintended
upside to this response, the air quality has been widely reported to have improved …

[HTML][HTML] Changes in air quality in Mexico City, London and Delhi in response to various stages and levels of lockdowns and easing of restrictions during COVID-19 …

E Vega, A Namdeo, L Bramwell… - Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
The impacts of COVID-19 lockdown restrictions have provided a valuable global experiment
into the extent of improvements in air quality possible with reductions in vehicle movements …

Air pollution impacts of COVID-19–related containment measures

GP Chossière, H Xu, Y Dixit, S Isaacs, SD Eastham… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Responses to the COVID-19 outbreak resulted in one of the largest short-term decreases in
anthropogenic emissions in modern history. To date, there has been no comprehensive …

Air quality changes in cities during the COVID-19 lockdown: A critical review

MG Adam, PTM Tran, R Balasubramanian - Atmospheric Research, 2021 - Elsevier
In response to the rapid spread of coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) within and across
countries and the need to protect public health, governments worldwide introduced …

Lockdown caused by COVID-19 pandemic reduces air pollution in cities worldwide

AM Shrestha, UB Shrestha, R Sharma, S Bhattarai… - 2020 - eartharxiv.org
Drastic measures such as lockdown taken by countries worldwide to contain spread of
COVID-19 have influenced air pollution dynamics substantially, at a planetary scale. Several …

[HTML][HTML] The impact of COVID-19 lockdowns on air quality—A global review

A Addas, A Maghrabi - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has emerged as a serious public health threat and
has had a tremendous impact on all spheres of the environment. The air quality across the …

Global, continental, and national variation in PM2. 5, O3, and NO2 concentrations during the early 2020 COVID-19 lockdown

C He, S Hong, L Zhang, H Mu, A Xin, Y Zhou… - Atmospheric pollution …, 2021 - Elsevier
Lockdowns implemented in response to COVID-19 have caused an unprecedented
reduction in global economic and transport activity. In this study, variation in the …

Nonuniform impacts of COVID-19 lockdown on air quality over the United States

LWA Chen, LC Chien, Y Li, G Lin - Science of the Total Environment, 2020 - Elsevier
Most of the state governments in United States (US) issued lockdown or business
restrictions amid the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, which created a unique …