Pandemic and Climate Change Impact on Urban Air Pollution

Dear Colleagues,

In the last few years, we have seen drastic, sudden, and unpredictable changes to the urban climates due to reduced human activities due to pandemic restrictions. The pandemic restrictions worldwide created a unique opportunity to study and isolate the impact of human action on urban air pollution, turning the world into a living lab and large-scale real-life experiment that would not have been possible to implement before. Further, the unfortunate climate change impact of extreme weather conditions and natural fires has created a different emission profile and atmospheric chemistry and physics than anything ever seen before. In this Special Issue of the MPDI  journal Atmosphere, we would like to collect and present work related to these unprecedented events that will help the scientific community to understand the role of human activities and climate change and the impact of climate change and emission alteration on public health. We hope that such a collection of papers will provide insight that improves air pollution mitigation and climate change abatement technologies and policies. Articles from any discipline are welcomed. Of special interest are the topics of emission inventory updates, air pollution dispersion modeling, source apportionment studies, local modeling, data analytics, machine learning forecasting, and public health relevant to air pollution.

Dr. Vahid Hosseini
Guest Editor

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• urban air pollution
• emission inventory
• dispersion modelling
• air pollution during COVID-19
• climate change and air pollution
• adaptation to climate change