Effect of COVID-19 pandemic on air quality: a study based on Air Quality Index

S Gope, S Dawn, SS Das - Environmental Science and Pollution …, 2021 - Springer
The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly affected economic activities all around the world.
Though it took a huge amount of human breathes as well as increases unemployment, it …

[PDF][PDF] The effect of COVID-19 lockdowns on the air pollution of urban areas of central and southern Chile

K Morales-Solís, H Ahumada, JP Rojas… - Aerosol and Air Quality …, 2021 - aaqr.org
We present the effects of the confinement and physical distancing policies applied during
the COVID-19 pandemic on the concentrations of PM10, PM2. 5, NO, NO2 and O3 in 16 …

Impact of COVID-19 on the air quality over China and India using long-term (2009-2020) multi-satellite data

M Soni, S Verma, H Jethava, S Payra, L Lamsal… - Aerosol and Air Quality …, 2021 - aaqr.org
We have examined the air quality over China, India and demonstrated marked differences in
levels of air pollution resulted from the COVID-19 restrictions during December–April, 2019 …

Lockdown to contain the COVID-19 pandemic: an opportunity to create a less polluted environment in India

P Lal, A Kumar, S Bharti, P Saikia, D Adhikari… - Aerosol and Air Quality …, 2021 - aaqr.org
Keeping aside the economic consequences, the imposition of strict lockdown in order to
break the chain of deadly infection of SARS-CoV-2, has potentially improved the global …

Effect of lockdown due to COVID-19 on the aerosol and trace gases spatial distribution over India and adjoining regions

MV Ratnam, P Prasad, STA Raj, I Hoteit - Aerosol and Air Quality …, 2021 - aaqr.org
Significant improvement in the air quality has been reported during the 'Lockdown'being
implemented due to the Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19) pandemic in several parts of the …

Nitrogen dioxide decline and rebound observed by GOME-2 and TROPOMI during COVID-19 pandemic

S Liu, P Valks, S Beirle, DG Loyola - Air Quality, Atmosphere & Health, 2021 - Springer
Since its first confirmed case in December 2019, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has
become a worldwide pandemic with more than 90 million confirmed cases by January 2021 …

Impact of nationwide COVID-19 lockdown on Indian air quality in terms of aerosols as observed from the space

MK Mishra, PS Rathore - Aerosol and Air Quality Research, 2021 - aaqr.org
Air pollution in India, especially in cities located in Indo-Gangetic plain (IGP), has exceeded
all standards in the recent past. The development of an effective pollution control strategy …

Breath of change: a meteorological and green infrastructure perspective on air quality in skopje, north macedonia

M Srbinovska, V Andova, AK Mateska… - Clean Technologies and …, 2024 - Springer
In urban settings, a significant issue revolves around poor air quality, characterized by
elevated levels of particulate matter (PM) and diverse pollutants (CO and NO2) detrimental …

[PDF][PDF] Big data analysis for effects of the COVID-19 outbreak on ambient PM2. 5 in areas that were not locked down

TY Yu, HR Chao, MH Tsai, CC Lin, IC Lu… - Aerosol and Air Quality …, 2021 - aaqr.org
ABSTRACT COVID-19, which is caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
(SARS-CoV-2), first broke out at the end of 2019. Despite rapidly spreading around the …

Urban air quality changes resulting from the lockdown period due to the COVID-19 pandemic

D Galán-Madruga - International Journal of Environmental Science and …, 2023 - Springer
This work aims to quantify potential pollution level changes in an urban environment (Madrid
city, Spain) located in South Europe due to the lockdown measures for preventing the SARS …