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| Unprecedented Temporary Reduction in Global Air Pollution Associated with COVID-19 Forced Confinement: A Continental and City Scale Analysis | |
| Zhang, Zhijie1; Zhang, Chuanrong1; Li, Weidong1; Arshad, Arfan2,3; Hussain, Saddam4 | |
| 2020-08 | |
| 发表期刊 | REMOTE SENSING
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| EISSN | 2072-4292 |
| 摘要 | Shortly after the outbreak of the novel infectious disease (COVID-19) started at the end of 2019, it turned into a global pandemic, which caused the lockdown of many countries across the world. Various strict measures were adopted to reduce anthropogenic activities in order to prevent further spread and infection of the disease. In this study, we utilized continental scale remotely sensed data along with city scale in situ air quality observations for 2020 as well as data from the baseline period (2015-2019) to provide an early insight on air pollution changes in response to the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown, by combining both continental and city scales. For the continental scale analysis, data of NO2, SO2, and O-3 were acquired from the ozone monitoring instrument (OMI) and data of aerosol optical depth (AOD) were collected from the moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer (MODIS). For city scale analysis, data of NO2, CO, PM2.5, O-3, and SO2 were derived from ground-based air quality observations. Results from satellite observations at the continental scale showed that concentrations of NO2, SO2, and AOD substantially dropped in 2020 during the lockdown period compared to their averages for the baseline period over all continents, with a maximum reduction of similar to 33% for NO2 in East Asia, similar to 41% for SO2 in East Asia, and similar to 37% for AOD in South Asia. In the case of O-3, the maximum overall reduction was observed as similar to 11% in Europe, followed by similar to 10% in North America, while a slight increase was found in other study regions. These findings align with ground-based air quality observations, which showed that pollutants such as NO2, CO, PM2.5, and SO2 during the 2020 lockdown period decreased significantly except that O-3 had varying patterns in different cities. Specifically, a maximum reduction of similar to 49% in NO2 was found in London, similar to 43% in CO in Wuhan, similar to 38% in PM2.5 in Chennai, and similar to 48% in SO2 in Beijing. In the case of urban O-3, a maximum reduction of similar to 43% was found in Wuhan, but a significant increase of similar to 47% was observed in Chennai. It is obvious that restricted human activities during the lockdown have reduced the anthropogenic emissions and subsequently improved air quality, especially across the metropolitan cities. |
| 关键词 | COVID-19 lockdown geospatial correlation ambient air pollutants OMI MODIS |
| DOI | 10.3390/rs12152420 |
| WOS关键词 | CLIMATE-CHANGE ; OZONE ; QUALITY ; AEROSOL ; CHINA ; NOX ; ALGORITHM ; MORTALITY ; PRODUCTS ; IMPACT |
| WOS研究方向 | Remote Sensing |
| WOS类目 | Remote Sensing |
| 出版者 | MDPI |
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| 文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
| 专题 | 新冠肺炎 循证社会科学证据集成 |
| 作者单位 | 1.Univ Connecticut; 2.Chinese Acad Sci; 3.Univ Chinese Acad Sci; 4.Univ Agr Faisalabad |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Zhang, Zhijie,Zhang, Chuanrong,Li, Weidong,et al. Unprecedented Temporary Reduction in Global Air Pollution Associated with COVID-19 Forced Confinement: A Continental and City Scale Analysis[J]. REMOTE SENSING,2020. |
| APA | Zhang, Zhijie,Zhang, Chuanrong,Li, Weidong,Arshad, Arfan,&Hussain, Saddam.(2020).Unprecedented Temporary Reduction in Global Air Pollution Associated with COVID-19 Forced Confinement: A Continental and City Scale Analysis.REMOTE SENSING. |
| MLA | Zhang, Zhijie,et al."Unprecedented Temporary Reduction in Global Air Pollution Associated with COVID-19 Forced Confinement: A Continental and City Scale Analysis".REMOTE SENSING (2020). |
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