Special Issue "Coronavirus Pandemic Shutdown Effects on Urban Air Quality"
A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Air Quality".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (12 November 2021) | Viewed by 72478
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Interests: biosphere-atmosphere interactions; energy and trace gas fluxes; boundary layer meteorology; climate change impacts
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Interests: human and natural impacts on weather, air quality and climate; land-cover/use impacts on cloud and precipitation formation; pollution in remote locations, wind energy; evaluation of air-quality model results
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Interests: atmosphere composition; aerosol sources; health-related effects of aerosols; receptor models; turbulent fluxes; particle deposition; nucleation
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Interests: regional tropospheric chemistry and air quality; global and regional modeling of atmospheric aerosols and their radiative effects; aerosol-cloud interactions; intercontinental transport of trace gases and aerosols; aerosol optical properties and mixing state; aerosol remote sensing
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Interests: air quality; atmospheric aerosol; health effects; characterization of ultrafine particles; combustion generated aerosol and urban areas; black carbon and carbonaceous aerosol, and relevant toxicology
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Interests: urban air quality; airborne nano/ultrafine particles; aerosols; wind engineering; city, megacities and health; exposure assessment, modelling and inequalities; indoor air quality; energy-pollution nexus; airborne nanoparticles and nanomaterials; transport emission and modelling; air pollution dispersion modelling; technological pollution control and environmental policies; green infrastructure interventions and health mapping
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Interests: climate dynamics; climate physics; climate change and variability; aerosols; ambient air quality; ozone-climate interactions; atmospheric physics and chemistry; nonlinear processes; artificial intelligence and machine learning; remote sensing
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In a world of over 7 billion people, most of them living in urban areas, the unprecedented shutdown of much of social and economic activity to address the COVID-19 pandemic has led to a reduction of pollutant emissions that is similarly unprecedented and rapid. Air pollution around the world has been reduced so significantly as to become clearly visible from space. Satellite data on NO2 columns were circulated quickly, as were photographic documentations of increased visibility conditions due to lower particulate matter concentrations. However, emissions reductions have likely neither been uniform, nor extended to a majority of all air pollutants. Mobile sector emissions of NOx and other pollutants have been the most commonly reduced, making this a unique experiment of observing the urban atmosphere and its chemistry under conditions not expected for another few decades. The continued operation of satellite instruments, and of surface air quality measurement networks in numerous countries and cities around the world during the pandemic provides a rich data set of the ongoing effects of
this reduction on air quality, and we encourage scientists to analyze these data in detail, and submit their manuscripts for publication in this Special Issue.
Dr. Gunnar W. Schade
Prof. Dr. Nicole Mölders
Dr. Daniele Contini
Dr. Gabriele Curci
Dr. Francesca Costabile
Prof. Dr. Prashant Kumar
Dr. Chris G. Tzanis
Guest Editors
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