Search for Articles:
Title / Keyword
Author / Affiliation / Email
Journal
Article Type
 
 
Advanced Search
 
Section
Special Issue
Volume
Issue
Number
Page
 
4.6
2.5
Journals
Atmosphere
Special Issues
Coronavirus Pandemic Shutdown Effects on Urban Air Quality (2nd Volume)
share announcement

Coronavirus Pandemic Shutdown Effects on Urban Air Quality (2nd Volume)

A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Air Quality and Health".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (6 December 2022) | Viewed by 4828

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Gunnar W. Schade

E-Mail Website
Guest Editor
Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Texas A&M University, TX 77843, USA
Interests: biosphere-atmosphere interactions; energy and trace gas fluxes; boundary layer meteorology; climate change impacts
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Prof. Dr. Nicole Mölders

E-Mail Website
Guest Editor
Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK 99775, USA
Interests: human and natural impacts on weather, air quality and climate; land-cover/use impacts on cloud and precipitation formation; pollution in remote locations, wind energy; evaluation of air-quality model results
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Dr. Daniele Contini

E-Mail Website
Guest Editor
Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (ISAC), National Research Council (CNR), Str. Prv. Lecce-Monteroni km 1.2, 73100 Lecce, Italy
Interests: atmosphere composition; aerosol sources; health-related effects of aerosols; receptor models; turbulent fluxes; particle deposition; nucleation
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Dr. Gabriele Curci

E-Mail Website
Guest Editor
Department of Physical and Chemical Sciences, Università degli Studi dell’Aquila, 67010 Coppito, L’Aquila, Italy
Interests: regional tropospheric chemistry and air quality; global and regional modeling of atmospheric aerosols and their radiative effects; aerosol-cloud interactions; intercontinental transport of trace gases and aerosols; aerosol optical properties and mixing state; aerosol remote sensing
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Dr. Francesca Costabile

E-Mail Website
Guest Editor
Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (ISAC), National Research Council (CNR), 00133 Rome, Italy
Interests: air quality; atmospheric aerosol; health effects; characterization of ultrafine particles; combustion generated aerosol and urban areas; black carbon and carbonaceous aerosol, and relevant toxicology
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Prof. Dr. Prashant Kumar

grade E-Mail Website
Guest Editor
Global Center for Clean Air Research (GCARE), School of Sustainability, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of Surrey, Surrey GU2 7XH, UK
Interests: low-cost sensing; air pollution modelling; pollution mitigation; atmospheric science
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Dr. Chris G. Tzanis

E-Mail Website
Guest Editor
Section of Environmental Physics and Meteorology, Department of Physics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, University Campus, 157 84 Athens, Greece
Interests: climate dynamics; climate physics; climate change and variability; aerosols; ambient air quality; ozone-climate interactions; atmospheric physics and chemistry; nonlinear processes; artificial intelligence and machine learning; remote sensing
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Though the COVID-19 pandemic continues, countermeasures to limit the virus’ spread, particular countrywide or regional “lock-downs”, have become rare. However, pandemic-induced changes to social behavior in densely populated areas may have led to enduring changes in urban air quality.

For our first volume, we invited manuscripts that described the effects on air quality during the initial phases of the world’s response to the pandemic. This was dominated by large, but mostly temporary reductions in road traffic emissions that manifested in air quality changes observable from satellite instruments and surface air quality measurement networks. As a result, Atmosphere published a series of insightful analyses from several continents, including rich datasets.

For this second volume, we are once again seeking manuscripts that use remotely sensed or in situ measurement data to provide insights into the effects of the pandemic on urban air quality. In addition, considering the rapid recovery of social and economic activity in many parts of the world, we solicit manuscripts that address questions of how and how fast air pollution around the world has or has not returned to pre-pandemic levels. Since the initial emissions reductions were likely not uniform, and neither was the return to “normal”, we are looking forward to continued analyses of the altered mobile sector and other emissions that can be traced to societal challenges and changes driven by the world’s pandemic responses. In this regard, we encourage comprehensive studies that bring these air quality changes into the broader perspective of health effects.

Dr. Gunnar W. Schade
Prof. Dr. Nicole Mölders
Dr. Daniele Contini
Dr. Gabriele Curci
Dr. Francesca Costabile
Prof. Dr. Prashant Kumar
Dr. Chris G. Tzanis
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Atmosphere is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Benefits of Publishing in a Special Issue

  • Ease of navigation: Grouping papers by topic helps scholars navigate broad scope journals more efficiently.
  • Greater discoverability: Special Issues support the reach and impact of scientific research. Articles in Special Issues are more discoverable and cited more frequently.
  • Expansion of research network: Special Issues facilitate connections among authors, fostering scientific collaborations.
  • External promotion: Articles in Special Issues are often promoted through the journal's social media, increasing their visibility.
  • e-Book format: Special Issues with more than 10 articles can be published as dedicated e-books, ensuring wide and rapid dissemination.

Further information on MDPI's Special Issue polices can be found here.

Related Special Issue

Published Papers (2 papers)

Download All Papers
Order results
Result details
Show export options expand_more Show export options expand_less
Select all
Export citation of selected articles as:

Research

15 pages, 1270 KiB  
Article
The Dynamic Impacts of COVID-19 Pandemic Lockdown on the Multifractal Cross-Correlations between PM2.5 and O3 Concentrations in and around Shanghai, China
by Xing Li and Fang Su
Atmosphere 2022, 13(12), 1964; https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos13121964 - 24 Nov 2022
Viewed by 1188
Abstract
Although the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic caused serious restrictions on human activities in and around Shanghai, China, the period can be viewed as a helpful experiment to investigate the correlation between PM2.5 and O3 concentrations. In this study, the hourly [...] Read more.
Although the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic caused serious restrictions on human activities in and around Shanghai, China, the period can be viewed as a helpful experiment to investigate the correlation between PM2.5 and O3 concentrations. In this study, the hourly PM2.5 and O3 series in four cities (i.e., Shanghai, Jiaxing, Nantong and Suzhou) from 27 November 2019 to 23 March 2020 are used. The “seesaw effect” is observed in the study data. The dynamic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the multifractal cross-correlations and the coordinated control degree of PM2.5-O3 are examined in these cities. First of all, the multifractal cross-correlations, multifractality components and dynamic influences of the COVID-19 pandemic on cross-correlations between PM2.5 and O3 in four cities are illustrated. Furthermore, a new quantification index, ζ, evaluating the coordinated control degree of PM2.5-O3 is developed, validated and compared. The multifractal cross-correlation analysis results reveal that the cross-correlations between PM2.5 and O3 in and around Shanghai both before and during the COVID-19 partial lockdown have multifractal characteristics. Moreover, there are weaker multifractal cross-correlation degrees of PM2.5-O3 in four cities during the COVID-19 partial lockdown. The multifractal cause analysis based on stochastic simulation illustrates that the impacts of multifractality due to the nonlinear correlation part are greater than the linear correlation part and the fat-tailed probability distribution part in and around Shanghai. The intrinsic multifractal cross-correlations decreased in all cities during the COVID-19 lockdown. However, the effects of the COVID-19 lockdown on the multifractal cross-correlations are limited from the perspective of intrinsic multifractality. The mean values of ζ in and around Shanghai all increase during the COVID-19 partial lockdown, which indicates that the PM2.5-O3 coordinated control degrees in all four cities become weaker. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Coronavirus Pandemic Shutdown Effects on Urban Air Quality (2nd Volume))
►▼ Show Figures

Figure 1

16 pages, 3567 KiB  
Article
Assessment of Lockdown Effectiveness during COVID-19 Pandemic Using Air Pollution Data in Armenia in March–June 2019 and 2020: A Cross-Sectional Study
by Aelita Sargsyan, Narek Galstyan, Hamazasp Nahatakyan and Maria Manuela Morales-Suárez-Varela
Atmosphere 2022, 13(10), 1563; https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos13101563 - 24 Sep 2022
Cited by 3 | Viewed by 2643
Abstract
Various methods used by different countries’ governments to control the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), the cause of pandemic in 2020, affected air quality. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of lockdown in Armenia on the content of [...] Read more.
Various methods used by different countries’ governments to control the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), the cause of pandemic in 2020, affected air quality. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of lockdown in Armenia on the content of the main air pollutants—dust, SO2 and NO2. This was a cross-sectional study. We analyzed data on the concentrations of SO2, NO2 and dust from March to June, 2019 and the same period in 2020 as well as data on positive COVID-19 cases from Yerevan, Vanadzor and Hrazdan. In 2020, dust was found to be lower in Yerevan and in Hrazdan and higher in Vanadzor than in the same period in 2019. The same pattern was present for SO2 concentrations: in Yerevan and Hrazdan there was a decrease, and there was an increase in Vanadzor. The concentrations of NO2 increased in Yerevan and Hrazdan, with a slight decrease in Vanadzor. New cases of COVID-19 had a negative correlation with dust and a positive correlation with SO2. The strict quarantine measures were effective in containing the spread of COVID-19. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Coronavirus Pandemic Shutdown Effects on Urban Air Quality (2nd Volume))
►▼ Show Figures

Figure 1

Show export options expand_more Show export options expand_less
Select all
Export citation of selected articles as:
 
Displaying articles 1-2
Back to TopTop