[HTML][HTML] Updates in Air Pollution: Current Research and Future Challenges

D Vilcins, RC Christofferson, JH Yoon… - Annals of Global …, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background: The United Nations has declared that humans have a right to clean air. Despite
this, many deaths and disability-adjusted life years are attributed to air pollution exposure …

[HTML][HTML] Systematic review and meta-analysis on the impact of COVID-19 related restrictions on air quality in low-and middle-income countries

AMD Navaratnam, H Williams, SJ Sharp… - Science of The Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Background Low-and middle-income countries (LMIC) are disproportionately affected by air
pollution and its health burden, representing a global inequity. The COVID-19 pandemic …

COVID-19 perturbation on US air quality and human health impact assessment

J He, C Harkins, K O'Dell, M Li, C Francoeur… - PNAS …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The COVID-19 stay-at-home orders issued in the United States caused significant
reductions in traffic and economic activities. To understand the pandemic's perturbations on …

[HTML][HTML] How well do Earth system models reproduce the observed aerosol response to rapid emission reductions? A COVID-19 case study

RAR Digby, NP Gillett, AH Monahan… - Atmospheric …, 2024 - acp.copernicus.org
The spring 2020 COVID-19 lockdowns led to a rapid reduction in aerosol and aerosol
precursor emissions. These emission reductions provide a unique opportunity for model …

Impacts of irregular and strategic lockdown on air quality over Indo-Pak Subcontinent: Pre-to-post COVID-19 analysis

F Saleem, S Hina, I Ullah, A Habib, A Hina… - Chaos, Solitons & …, 2024 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 pandemic has received enormous attention worldwide due to its
environmental, and societal impacts. After the discovery of this novel virus in December …

An Observing System Simulation Experiment Analysis of How Well Geostationary Satellite Trace‐Gas Observations Constrain NOx Emissions in the US

CH Hsu, DK Henze, AP Mizzi… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
We investigate the benefit of assimilating high spatial‐temporal resolution nitrogen dioxide
(NO2) measurements from a geostationary (GEO) instrument such as Tropospheric …

Ozone at Mace Head, Ireland from 1987 to 2021: Declining baselines, phase-out of European regional pollution, COVID-19 impacts

RG Derwent, DD Parrish, AJ Manning, TG Spain… - Atmospheric …, 2024 - Elsevier
Just under three hundred thousand hourly O 3 observations from the Mace Head, Ireland
atmospheric monitoring station have been assembled into a complete dataset covering the …

Air quality and urban climate improvements in the world's most populated region during the COVID-19 pandemic

A Damiani, H Irie, D Belikov, RR Cordero… - Environmental …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
In this study, we assessed air quality (AQ) and urban climate during the mobility restrictions
implemented in the Greater Tokyo Area, Japan, the world's most populated region, in …

[HTML][HTML] Revised estimates of NO2 reductions during the COVID-19 lockdowns using updated TROPOMI NO2 retrievals and model simulations

BL Fisher, LN Lamsal, Z Fasnacht, LD Oman… - Atmospheric …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The TROPOspheric Monitoring Instrument (TROPOMI) observed unprecedented
declines in NO 2 vertical column densities (VCD) over the world's most densely populated …

[HTML][HTML] Complexity of Arctic Ocean water isotope (δ18O, δ2H) spatial and temporal patterns revealed with machine learning

ES Klein, AP Baltensperger… - Elementa: Science of the …, 2024 - online.ucpress.edu
Although anthropogenic emissions have decreased during the last 2 decades, air pollution
is still problematic in Europe. This study analyzes the air quality in Europe using simulations …