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 …

[HTML][HTML] COVID-19 pandemic: What can we learn for better air quality and human health?

K Ravindra, T Singh, S Vardhan, A Shrivastava… - Journal of infection and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 lockdown resulted in improved air quality in many cities across the world.
With the objective of what could be the new learning from the COVID-19 pandemic and …

Air quality during three covid-19 lockdown phases: AQI, PM2. 5 and NO2 assessment in cities with more than 1 million inhabitants

A Benchrif, A Wheida, M Tahri, RM Shubbar… - Sustainable Cities and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Implemented quarantine due to the ongoing novel coronavirus (agent of COVID-19) has an
immense impact on human mobility and economic activities as well as on air quality. Since …

[HTML][HTML] Adequacy of telework spaces in homes during the lockdown in Madrid, according to socioeconomic factors and home features

T Cuerdo-Vilches, MÁ Navas-Martín, S March… - Sustainable Cities and …, 2021 - Elsevier
In Spain, the COVID-19 confinement was carried out in the spring of 2020. All non-essential
activities were temporarily suspended. This brought with it the adaptation to home office …

Changes of air pollution between countries because of lockdowns to face COVID-19 pandemic

AP Akan, M Coccia - Applied Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
The goal of this study is to analyze how levels of air pollution changed between countries
with their restriction policy of lockdown to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic. The study …

COVID-19 pandemic, port congestion, and air quality: evidence from China

B Gu, J Liu - Ocean & Coastal Management, 2023 - Elsevier
The emergency of COVID-19 leads to almost all unnecessary activities being banned
because of city lockdowns, which results in the economy and human mobility being strictly …

What is polluting Delhi's Air? A review from 1990 to 2022

SK Guttikunda, SK Dammalapati, G Pradhan, B Krishna… - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
Delhi's annual average PM2. 5 concentration in 2021–22 was 100 μg/m3—20 times more
than the WHO guideline of 5 μg/m3. This is an improvement compared to the limited …

Evolution of India's PM 2.5 pollution between 1998 and 2020 using global reanalysis fields coupled with satellite observations and fuel consumption patterns

S Guttikunda, KA Nishadh - Environmental Science: Atmospheres, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
General practice is to rely on ambient monitoring data for reporting and regulatory
applications in air quality management. Based on data collated for 2021, Delhi ranked the …

[HTML][HTML] Evolution of air pollution management policies and related research in India

S Gulia, N Shukla, L Padhi, P Bosu, SK Goyal… - Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Air pollution has been a matter of grave concern since time immemorial but was brought to
the attention of stakeholders only in the last few decades. The adverse repercussions of air …

Changes in NO2 and O3 levels due to the pandemic lockdown in the industrial cities of Tehran and Arak, Iran using Sentinel 5P images, Google Earth Engine (GEE) …

LK Gharibvand, AA Jamali, F Amiri - Stochastic Environmental Research …, 2023 - Springer
Air pollution has very damaging effects on human health. In recent years the Coronavirus
disease (COVID-19) pandemic has created a worldwide economic disaster. Although the …