The global impacts of COVID-19 lockdowns on urban air pollution: A critical review and recommendations

GI Gkatzelis, JB Gilman, SS Brown, H Eskes… - Elem Sci …, 2021 - online.ucpress.edu
The coronavirus-19 (COVID-19) pandemic led to government interventions to limit the
spread of the disease which are unprecedented in recent history; for example, stay at home …

Short-Lived Climate Forcers (Chapter 6)

S Szopa, V Naik, B Adhikary, P Artaxo, T Berntsen… - 2021 - pure.iiasa.ac.at
Short-lived climate forcers (SLCFs) affect climate and are, in most cases, also air pollutants.
They include aerosols (sulphate, nitrate, ammonium, carbonaceous aerosols, mineral dust …

Distribution of bioaerosols in association with particulate matter: a review on emerging public health threat in Asian megacities

M Shammi, MM Rahman, SM Tareq - Frontiers in Environmental …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Occurrences and exposure to high levels of microbial bioaerosols such as pathogenic
bacteria, fungi, fungal spores, and viruses can be linked to the deterioration of the …

Aerosol-PM2. 5 Dynamics: in-situ and satellite observations under the influence of regional crop residue burning in post-monsoon over Delhi-NCR, India

RP Kumar, R Singh, P Kumar, R Kumar, S Nahid… - Environmental …, 2024 - Elsevier
The increasing air pollution in the urban atmosphere is adversely impacts the environment,
climate and human health. The alarming degradation of air quality, atmospheric conditions …

Haze risk assessment based on improved PCA-MEE and ISPO-LightGBM model

H Dai, G Huang, H Zeng, R Yu - Systems, 2022 - mdpi.com
With the economic development in China, haze risks are frequent. It is important to study the
urban haze risk assessment to manage the haze disaster. The haze risk assessment …

Responses of fine particulate matter (PM2. 5) air quality to future climate, land use, and emission changes: insights from modeling across shared socioeconomic …

H Bhattarai, APK Tai, MV Martin, DHY Yung - Science of The Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Air pollution induced by fine particulate matter with diameter≤ 2.5 μm (PM 2.5) poses a
significant challenge for global air quality management. Understanding how factors such as …

[HTML][HTML] IResponse: An AI and IoT-enabled framework for autonomous COVID-19 pandemic management

F Alam, A Almaghthawi, I Katib, A Albeshri… - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
SARS-CoV-2, a tiny virus, is severely affecting the social, economic, and environmental
sustainability of our planet, causing infections and deaths (2,674,151 deaths, as of 17 March …

The concentration of major air pollutants during the movement control order due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the Klang Valley, Malaysia

MT Latif, D Dominick, NSSL Hawari, AAA Mohtar… - Sustainable cities and …, 2021 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 pandemic forced many governments across the world to implement some
form of lockdown to minimalize the spread of the virus. On 18th March 2020, the Malaysian …

[HTML][HTML] Variation in chemical composition and sources of PM2. 5 during the COVID-19 lockdown in Delhi

C Manchanda, M Kumar, V Singh, M Faisal… - Environment …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The Government of India (GOI) announced a nationwide lockdown starting 25th
March 2020 to contain the spread of COVID-19, leading to an unprecedented decline in …

Assessing the COVID‐19 impact on air quality: A machine learning approach

Y Rybarczyk, R Zalakeviciute - Geophysical Research Letters, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The worldwide research initiatives on Corona Virus disease 2019 lockdown effect on air
quality agree on pollution reduction, but the most reliable method to pollution reduction …