Sathe, Yogesh Gupta, Pawan Bawase, Moqtik Lamsal, Lok Patadia, Falguni Thipse, Sukrut
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Sustainable cities and society
The strict nationwide lockdown imposed in India starting from 25th March 2020 to prevent the spread of COVID-19 disease reduced the mobility and interrupted several important anthropogenic emission sources thereby creating a temporary air quality improvement. This study conducts a multi-scale (national-regional-city), multi-species, and multi-platf...
Jiang, Shan Yu, Zu-Guo Anh, Vo V Zhou, Yu
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Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987)
Air quality forecasting for Hong Kong is a challenge. Even taking the advantages of auto-regressive integrated moving average and some state-of-the-art numerical models, a recently-developed hybrid method for one-day (two- and three-day) ahead forecasting performs similarly to (slightly better than) a simple persistence forecasting. Long-term forec...
de França Souza, Pedro Augusto Neto, José Lozano Araújo Cardoso, Arnaldo Alves
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Water, Air, and Soil Pollution
The lockdown to prevent the coronavirus spread resulted in an immediate reduction in gas concentration worldwide. This fact shows the importance of nitrogen dioxide as a pollutant gas directly associated with human activities. For indoor exposure, NO2 has been associated with effects on the respiratory system. In outdoor environments, ozone reaches...
Stevens, Kelly A. Bryer, Thomas A. Yu, Haofei
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Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recently acknowledged that the principal mode for SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) to spread is through airborne particles. Reducing levels of particulate matter, a form of air pollutant, may decrease the spread of the virus and save lives. In this article, we propose establishing l...
Kandari, Ritu Kumar, Ashwani
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Environmental Sustainability
The world is facing an unexpected, like never before, situation due to COVID-19. The measures to contain the COVID-19 pandemic are to incorporate lockdown, social distancing, disconnection, and home isolation. Lockdown was enforced by the various governments of the South Asian countries, which include non-working of all the businesses and assemblin...
Farahat, Ashraf Chauhan, Akshansha Al Otaibi, Mohammed Singh, Ramesh P.
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Earth Systems and Environment
Mecca and Madinah are two holy cities where millions of people in general, visit throughout the years, during Hajj (Muslim's pilgrimage) time number of people visit these holy cities from different parts of the world is very high. However, the Government of Saudi Arabia only allowed 1000 pilgrims during the 2020 Hajj especially when the world is su...
Kuhn, Tara Jayaratne, Rohan Thai, Phong K. Christensen, Bryce Liu, Xiaoting Dunbabin, Matthew Lamont, Riki Zing, Isak Wainwright, David Witte, Christian
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Concerns about air quality were expressed in preparations for the Commonwealth Games (Games), which were held at the Gold Coast, Australia, from 4th to 15th April, 2018, an international sporting event attended by more than 6600 athletes and over 670,000 visitors. Our aim was to trial application of low-cost sensors by conducting high spatial resol...
Spengler, Thomas Tovar, Beatriz
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Journal of environmental management
This paper provides insights into the potential of cold-ironing for the reduction of externalities. External cost derived from the emissions of CO2, NOx, SOx, and PM from berthed ships in the Spanish port system during 2016 are estimated providing a Spain-wide empirical evidence into where the highest externalities exist and where, on a port by por...
Naqvi, Hasan Raja Mutreja, Guneet Shakeel, Adnan Siddiqui, Masood Ahsan
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Remote Sensing Applications
The COVID-19 pandemic spread worldwide, such as wind, with more than 400,000 documented cases as of March 24th, 2020. In this regard, strict lockdown measures were imposed in India on the same date to stop virus spread. Thereafter, various lockdown impacts were observed, and one of the immediate effects was a reduction in air pollution levels acros...
Ytreberg, Erik Åström, Stefan Fridell, Erik
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Journal of environmental management
Shipping is an activity responsible for a range of different pressures affecting the marine environment, air quality and human welfare. The methodology on how ship emissions impact air quality and human health are comparatively well established and used in cost-benefit analysis of policy proposals. However, the knowledge base is not the same for im...
