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 …

Advances in air quality research–current and emerging challenges

RS Sokhi, N Moussiopoulos, A Baklanov… - Atmospheric …, 2021 - acp.copernicus.org
This review provides a community's perspective on air quality research focusing mainly on
developments over the past decade. The article provides perspectives on current and future …

Lessons from the COVID-19 air pollution decrease in Spain: Now what?

X Querol, J Massagué, A Alastuey, T Moreno… - Science of The Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
We offer an overview of the COVID-19-driven air quality changes across 11 metropolises in
Spain with the focus on lessons learned on how continuing abating pollution. Traffic flow …

Time-resolved emission reductions for atmospheric chemistry modelling in Europe during the COVID-19 lockdowns

M Guevara, O Jorba, A Soret, H Petetin… - Atmospheric …, 2021 - acp.copernicus.org
We quantify the reductions in primary emissions due to the COVID-19 lockdowns in Europe.
Our estimates are provided in the form of a dataset of reduction factors varying per country …

The worldwide COVID-19 lockdown impacts on global secondary inorganic aerosols and radiative budget

T Sekiya, K Miyazaki, H Eskes, K Bowman, K Sudo… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Global lockdown measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-
19) led to air pollutant emission reductions. While the COVID-19 lockdown impacts on both …

Changes in global air pollutant emissions during the COVID-19 pandemic: A dataset for atmospheric chemistry modeling

T Doumbia, C Granier, N Elguindi… - Earth System …, 2021 - essd.copernicus.org
In order to fight the spread of the global COVID-19 pandemic, most of the world's countries
have taken control measures such as lockdowns during a few weeks to a few months. These …

[HTML][HTML] Pop-up cycling infrastructure as a niche innovation for sustainable transportation in European cities: An inter-and transdisciplinary case study of Berlin

S Becker, D von Schneidemesser, A Caseiro… - Sustainable Cities and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Mobility behavior changes due to the COVID-19 pandemic have opened a window of
opportunity for an accelerated transition towards sustainable mobility. Many European cities …

Machine learning on the COVID-19 pandemic, human mobility and air quality: A review

MM Rahman, KC Paul, MA Hossain, GGMN Ali… - Ieee …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The ongoing COVID-19 global pandemic is touching every facet of human lives (eg, public
health, education, economy, transportation, and the environment). This novel pandemic and …

COVID‐19 crisis reduces free tropospheric ozone across the Northern Hemisphere

W Steinbrecht, D Kubistin… - Geophysical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Throughout spring and summer 2020, ozone stations in the northern extratropics recorded
unusually low ozone in the free troposphere. From April to August, and from 1 to 8 kilometers …

Air quality impacts of COVID-19 lockdown measures detected from space using high spatial resolution observations of multiple trace gases from Sentinel-5P …

PF Levelt, DC Stein Zweers, I Aben… - Atmospheric …, 2021 - acp.copernicus.org
The aim of this paper is two-fold: to provide guidance on how to best interpret TROPOMI
trace gas retrievals and to highlight how TROPOMI trace gas data can be used to …