The effect of COVID-19 pandemic on human mobility and ambient air quality around the world: A systematic review

S Faridi, F Yousefian, H Janjani, S Niazi, F Azimi… - Urban Climate, 2021 - Elsevier
We conducted this systematic review to identify and appraise studies investigating the
coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) effect on ambient air pollution status worldwide. The …

How changes in human activities during the lockdown impacted air quality parameters: A review

S Marinello, MA Butturi… - Environmental progress & …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The health emergency linked to the spread of COVID‐19 has led to important reduction in
industrial and logistics activities, as well as to a drastic changes in citizens' behaviors and …

Quantification of COVID-19 impacts on NO2 and O3: Systematic model selection and hyperparameter optimization on AI-based meteorological-normalization methods

YJ Wong, A Yeganeh, MY Chia, HY Shiu… - Atmospheric …, 2023 - Elsevier
Since the unprecedented outbreak of the COVID-19, numerous meteorological-
normalization techniques have been developed in lockdown-imposed regions to decouple …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of COVID-19 lockdown upon the air quality and surface urban heat island intensity over the United Arab Emirates

AS Alqasemi, ME Hereher, G Kaplan… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The 2019 pandemic of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-Corona Virus Diseases
(COVID-19) has posed a substantial threat to public health and major global economic …

The impact of COVID-19 lockdowns on surface urban heat island changes and air-quality improvements across 21 major cities in the Middle East

AM El Kenawy, JI Lopez-Moreno, MF McCabe… - Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
This study investigates changes in air quality conditions during the restricted COVID-19
lockdown period in 2020 across 21 metropolitan areas in the Middle East and how these …

Impacts of the COVID-19 economic slowdown on ozone pollution in the US

PC Campbell, D Tong, Y Tang, B Baker, P Lee… - Atmospheric …, 2021 - Elsevier
In this work, we use observations and experimental emissions in a version of NOAA's
National Air Quality Forecasting Capability to show that the COVID-19 economic slowdown …

[HTML][HTML] COVID-19 lockdown-induced changes in NO levels across India observed by multi-satellite and surface observations

A Biswal, V Singh, S Singh, AP Kesarkar… - Atmospheric …, 2021 - acp.copernicus.org
We have estimated the spatial changes in NO 2 levels over different regions of India during
the COVID-19 lockdown (25 March–3 May 2020) using the satellite-based tropospheric …

A fuel-based method for updating mobile source emissions during the COVID-19 pandemic

C Harkins, BC McDonald, DK Henze… - Environmental …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The COVID-19 pandemic and ensuing lockdown of many US States resulted in rapid
changes to motor vehicle traffic and their associated emissions. This presents a challenge …

The impacts of COVID-19 lockdown on PM10 and SO2 concentrations and association with human mobility across Turkey

NH Orak, O Ozdemir - Environmental research, 2021 - Elsevier
The SARS-CoV-2 virus pandemic (COVID-19) has caused 2.25 million deaths worldwide by
February 3, 2021 (JHU, 2021) and still causing severe health and economic disruptions with …

Impact of 2020 COVID-19 lockdowns on particulate air pollution across Europe

JP Putaud, E Pisoni, A Mangold… - Atmospheric …, 2023 - acp.copernicus.org
To fight against the first wave of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in 2020, lockdown
measures were implemented in most European countries. These lockdowns had well …