Separating the impact of gradual lockdown measures on air pollutants from seasonal variability

Analysis of near-surface measurements at several measuring points in Graz, Austria, reveals the impact of restrictive measures during the COVID-19 pandemic on the emission of atmospheric pollutants. We quantify the effects at traffic hotspots, industrial and residential areas. Using historical data...

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Autores principales: Hörmann, Siegfried, Jammoul, Fatima, Kuenzer, Thomas, Stadlober, Ernst
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Turkish National Committee for Air Pollution Research and Control. Production and hosting by Elsevier B.V. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7605804/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33162774
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apr.2020.10.011
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description Analysis of near-surface measurements at several measuring points in Graz, Austria, reveals the impact of restrictive measures during the COVID-19 pandemic on the emission of atmospheric pollutants. We quantify the effects at traffic hotspots, industrial and residential areas. Using historical data collected over several years, we are able to account for meteorological and seasonal confounders. Our analysis is based on daily means as well as intraday pollution level curves. Nitrogen dioxide (NO(2)) has decreased drastically while the levels of particulate matter PM(10) and carbon monoxide (CO) mostly exhibit little change. Traffic data shows that the decrease in traffic frequency is parallel to the decline in the levels of NO(2) and NO.
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spelling pubmed-76058042020-11-03 Separating the impact of gradual lockdown measures on air pollutants from seasonal variability Hörmann, Siegfried Jammoul, Fatima Kuenzer, Thomas Stadlober, Ernst Atmos Pollut Res Article Analysis of near-surface measurements at several measuring points in Graz, Austria, reveals the impact of restrictive measures during the COVID-19 pandemic on the emission of atmospheric pollutants. We quantify the effects at traffic hotspots, industrial and residential areas. Using historical data collected over several years, we are able to account for meteorological and seasonal confounders. Our analysis is based on daily means as well as intraday pollution level curves. Nitrogen dioxide (NO(2)) has decreased drastically while the levels of particulate matter PM(10) and carbon monoxide (CO) mostly exhibit little change. Traffic data shows that the decrease in traffic frequency is parallel to the decline in the levels of NO(2) and NO. Turkish National Committee for Air Pollution Research and Control. Production and hosting by Elsevier B.V. 2021-02 2020-11-02 /pmc/articles/PMC7605804/ /pubmed/33162774 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apr.2020.10.011 Text en © 2020 Turkish National Committee for Air Pollution Research and Control. Production and hosting by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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