Impact of lockdown on air quality in India during COVID-19 pandemic

RP Singh, A Chauhan - Air Quality, Atmosphere & Health, 2020 - Springer
First time in India, total lockdown was announced on 22 March 2020 to stop the spread of
COVID-19 and the lockdown was extended for 21 days on 24 March 2020 in the first phase …

Exceedances and trends of particulate matter (PM2. 5) in five Indian megacities

V Singh, S Singh, A Biswal - Science of the Total Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Fine particulate matter (PM 2.5) is the leading environmental risk factor that requires
regular monitoring and analysis for effective air quality management. This work presents the …

Short-term prediction of urban PM2.5 based on a hybrid modified variational mode decomposition and support vector regression model

J Chu, Y Dong, X Han, J **e, X Xu, G **e - Environmental Science and …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract PM 2.5 (particulate matter with a size/diameter≤ 2.5 μm) is an important air
pollutant that affects human health, especially in urban environments. However, as time …

A study on variation of atmospheric pollutants over Bhubaneswar during imposition of nationwide lockdown in India for the COVID-19 pandemic

S Panda, C Mallik, J Nath, T Das… - Air Quality, Atmosphere & …, 2021 - Springer
The nationwide lockdown in India to flatten the pandemic COVID-19 curve has resulted in
the reduction of anthropogenic emission sources to a great extent. This study reports change …

Effect of lockdown on HCHO and trace gases over India during March 2020

A Chauhan, RP Singh - Aerosol and Air Quality Research, 2021 - Springer
COVID-19 is one of the deadly Epidemics that has impacted people living in more than 200
countries. In order to mitigate the impact of COVID-19, India observed total lockdown in the …

Effects of COVID-19 pandemic on the air quality of three megacities in India

J Mandal, S Samanta, A Chanda, S Halder - Atmospheric research, 2021 - Elsevier
COVID-19 pandemic compelled many countries in the world to go for a nationwide lockdown
to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. India started the lockdown on 24 March 2020. We …

A hybrid-wavelet model applied for forecasting PM2. 5 concentrations in Taiyuan city, China

P Wang, G Zhang, F Chen, Y He - Atmospheric Pollution Research, 2019 - Elsevier
The main objective of this study is to apply hybrid-wavelet models developed by combining
artificial intelligence (AI) techniques and wavelet transforms to the prediction of PM 2.5 …

Atmospheric factors affecting a decrease in the night-time concentrations of tropospheric ozone in a low-polluted urban area

K Warmiński, A Bęś - Water, Air, & Soil Pollution, 2018 - Springer
Ozone (O 3) decomposition in the troposphere is a very important process which prevents
excessive O 3 accumulation in the air. It is particularly significant on warm summer days …

Fine particulate pollution and ambient air quality: A case study over an urban site in Delhi, India

J Singh, P Gupta, D Gupta, S Verma, D Prakash… - Journal of Earth System …, 2020 - Springer
The current study discourses the impact of variation in PM 2.5 concentration on the ambient
air quality of Delhi. The 24-hourly PM 2.5 concentration dataset was obtained from air quality …

Does haze pollution affect public health in China from the perspective of environmental efficiency?

D Ma, F He, G Li, G Deng - Environment, Development and Sustainability, 2021 - Springer
This study attempts to introduce haze pollution into the environmental efficiency evaluation
framework and measures PM2. 5 environmental efficiency in China during 2001–2017 …