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 …

[HTML][HTML] Global review of source apportionment of volatile organic compounds based on highly time-resolved data from 2015 to 2021

Y Yang, B Liu, J Hua, T Yang, Q Dai, J Wu… - Environment …, 2022 - Elsevier
Highly time-resolved data for volatile organic compounds (VOCs) can now be monitored.
Source analyses of such high time-resolved concentrations provides key information for …

Revealing drivers of haze pollution by explainable machine learning

L Hou, Q Dai, C Song, B Liu, F Guo, T Dai… - … & Technology Letters, 2022 - ACS Publications
Many places on earth still suffer from a high level of atmospheric fine particulate matter
(PM2. 5) pollution. Formation of a particulate pollution event or haze episode (HE) involves …

Assessing the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on urban transportation and air quality in Canada

X Tian, C An, Z Chen, Z Tian - Science of the Total Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
The global outbreak and spread of COVID-19 had a significant impact on the environment of
urban areas. This study aimed to provide a new insight into the urban transportation and air …

[HTML][HTML] Source apportionment of PM2. 5 in Seoul, South Korea and Beijing, China using dispersion normalized PMF

J Park, H Kim, Y Kim, J Heo, SW Kim, K Jeon… - Science of The Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
East Asian countries experience severe air pollution owing to their rapid development and
urbanization induced by substantial economic activities. South Korea and China are among …

The Lung Microbiota Affects Pulmonary Inflammation and Oxidative Stress Induced by PM2.5 Exposure

S Wang, Q Zhou, Y Tian, X Hu - Environmental science & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Fine particulate matter (PM2. 5) exposure causes respiratory diseases by inducing
inflammation and oxidative stress. However, the correlation between the pulmonary …

[HTML][HTML] Multiply improved positive matrix factorization for source apportionment of volatile organic compounds during the COVID-19 shutdown in Tianjin, China

Y Gu, B Liu, Q Dai, Y Zhang, M Zhou, Y Feng… - Environment …, 2022 - Elsevier
Ambient concentrations of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) vary with emission rates,
meteorology, and chemistry. Conventional positive matrix factorization (PMF) loses …

Trends of source apportioned PM2. 5 in Tianjin over 2013–2019: impacts of clean air actions

Q Dai, J Chen, X Wang, T Dai, Y Tian, X Bi, G Shi… - Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract A long-term (2013–2019) PM 2.5 speciation dataset measured in Tianjin, the
largest industrial city in northern China, was analyzed with dispersion normalized positive …

Sensitivity of PM2. 5 and O3 pollution episodes to meteorological factors over the North China Plain

S Ma, M Shao, Y Zhang, Q Dai, M Xie - Science of the Total Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The Comprehensive Air-quality Model with extensions (CAMx) was used to explore
the sensitivity of PM 2.5 and O 3 concentrations to four selected meteorological factors: wind …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluating the effectiveness of low-sulphur marine fuel regulations at improving urban ambient PM2. 5 air quality: Source apportionment of PM2. 5 at …

AT Anastasopolos, PK Hopke, UM Sofowote… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Ambient fine size fraction particulate matter (PM 2.5) sources were resolved by positive
matrix factorization at two Canadian cities on the Atlantic and Pacific coast over the 2010 …