• A global observational analysis to understand changes in air quality during exceptionally low anthropogenic emission conditions 

      Sokhi, Ranjeet S.; Singh, Vikas; Querol, Xavier; Finardi, Sandro; Targino, Admir Créso; Andrade, Maria de Fatima; Pavlovic, Radenko; Garland, Rebecca M.; Massagué, Jordi; Kong, Shaofei; Baklanov, Alexander; Ren, Lu; Tarasova, Oksana; Carmichael, Greg; Peuch, Vincent-Henri; Anand, Vrinda; Arbilla, Graciela; Badali, Kaitlin; Beig, Gufran; Belalcazart, Luis Carlos; Bolignano, Andrea; Brimblecombe, Peter; Camacho, Patricia; Casallas, Alejandro; Charland, Jean-Pierre; Choi, Jason; Chourdakis, Eleftherios; Coll, Isabelle; Collins, Marty; Cyrys, Josef; Cleyton, Martins; da Silva, Cleyton Martins; Di Giosa, Alessandro Domenico; Di Leo, Anna; Ferro, Camilo; Gavidia-Calderon, Mario; Gayen, Amiya; Ginzburg, Alexander; Godefroy, Fabrice; Gonzalez, Yuri Alexandra; Guevara-Luna, Marco; Haque, Mafizul; Havenga, Henno; Herod, Dennis; Horrak, Urmas; Hussein, Tareq; Ibarra, Sergio; Jaimes, Monica; Kaasik, Marko; Khaiwal, Ravindra; Kim, Jhoon; Kousa, Anu; Kukkonen, Jaakko; Kulmala, Markku; Kuula, Joel; La Violette, Nathalie; Lanzani, Guido; Liu, Xi; MacDougall, Stephanie; Manseau, Patrick M.; Marchegiani, Giada; McDonald, Brian; Vardhan Mishra, Swasti; Molina, Luisa T.; Mooibroek, Dennis; Mor, Suman; Moussiopoulos, Nicolas; Murena, Fabio; Niemi, Jarkko V.; Noe, Steffen; Nogueira, Thiago; Norman, Michael; Pérez-Camaño, Juan Luis; Petajä, Tuukka; Piketh, Stuart; Rathod, Aditi; Reid, Ken; Retama, Armando; Rivera, Olivia; Rojas, Néstor Y.; Rojas Quincho, Jhojan Pool; San José, Roberto; Sanchez, Odón R.; Seguel, Rodrigo J.; Sillanpää, Salla; Su, Yushan; Tapper, Nigel; Terrazas, Antonio; Timonen, Hilkka; Toscano, Domenico; Tsegas, George; Velders, Guus J.M.; Vlachokostas, Christos; von Schneidemesser, Erika; VpM, Rajasree; Ravi, Yadav; Zalakeviciute, Rasa; Zavala, Miguel

      (Elsevier, 2021-08)
      Acceso abierto
      This global study, which has been coordinated by the World Meteorological Organization Global Atmospheric Watch (WMO/GAW) programme, aims to understand the behaviour of key air pollutant species during the COVID-19 pandemic ...
    • Air pollution and COVID-19 lockdown in a large South American city: Santiago Metropolitan Area, Chile 

      Toro, Richard; Catalán, Francisco; Urdanivia Lermo, Francesco Renato; Rojas Quincho, Jhojan Pool; Manzano, Carlos A.; Seguel, Rodrigo; Gallardo, Laura; Osses, Mauricio; Pantoja, Nicolás; Leiva-Guzmán, Manuel A.

      (Elsevier B.V., 2021-02)
      Acceso abierto
      The implementation of confinement and physical distancing measures to restrict people's activities and transit in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic allowed us to study how these measures affect the air quality in urban ...
    • Association Between Air Pollution in Lima and the High Incidence of COVID-19: Findings from a Post Hoc Analysis 

      Vasquez-Apestegui, Vanessa; Parras-Garrido, Enrique; Tapia, Vilma; Paz-Aparicio, Valeria M.; Rojas Quincho, Jhojan Pool; Sánchez-Ccoyllo, Odón R.; Gonzales, Gustavo F.

      (PubMed Central, 2020-07)
      Acceso abierto
      Until June 12, 2020, there were 6,308 deaths and 220,749 SARS-CoV-2 positive cases in Peru. In Lima, the total number of COVID-19 deaths in all metropolitan areas was 2,382. The case-fatality rate at the national level ...
    • Association between air pollution in Lima and the high incidence of COVID-19: findings from a post hoc analysis 

      Vasquez-Apestegui, Bertha; Parras-Garrido, Enrique; Tapia, Vilma; Paz-Aparicio, Valeria M.; Rojas Quincho, Jhojan Pool; Sanchez-Ccoyllo, Odón R.; Gonzales, Gustavo F.

      (BioMed Central Ltd, 2021)
      Acceso abierto
      Background: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) originated in the People’s Republic of China in December 2019. Thereafter, a global logarithmic expansion of cases occurred. Some countries have a higher rate of infections ...
    • Chemical characteristics and identification of PM10 sources in two districts of Lima, Peru 

      Ilizarbe-Gonzáles, Gina Mishel; Rojas Quincho, Jhojan Pool; Cabello-Torres, Rita Jaqueline; Ugarte-Alvan, Carlos Alfred; Reynoso-Quispe, Patricia; Valdiviezo-Gonzales, Lorgio Gilberto

      (Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 2020-11)
      Acceso abierto
      This study evaluates the concentration of PM10 and PM2.5 andidentifies the sources of pollution in the districts of San Juan de Lurigancho (SJL) and Puente Piedra (PPD) located in the eastern and northern zones of the ...
    • Contaminación del Aire 

      Rojas Quincho, Jhojan Pool

      (Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia – UPCH, 2020-07)
      Acceso cerrado
      Los problemas más graves de contaminación del aire empezaron a ocurrir asociada a la “revolución industrial” iniciada en el siglo XVIII en Inglaterra. Los eventos de contaminación del aire están condicionados por el ...
    • Determination of atmospheric aerosol components in an urban area to evaluate the air quality and identify the sources of contamination 

      Bedregal, Patricia; Ubillus, Marco; Cáceres-Rivero, Cynthia; Olivera, Paula; Garay Saravia, Roy Antonio; Rojas Quincho, Jhojan Pool; Zafra, Rafael; Urdanivia Lermo, Franceso Renato

      (Springer, 2023-02-15)
      Acceso abierto
      The need to generate objective evidence and reliable information for decision makers to improve environmental policies for a better air quality, led us to evaluate the atmospheric aerosol components in the urban area of ...
    • Effects of COVID-19 pandemic control measures on air pollution in Lima metropolitan area, Peru in South America 

      Rojas Quincho, Jhojan Pool; Urdanivia Lermo, Francesco Renato; Garay Saravia, Roy Antonio; García Rosales, Alan Jesús; Enciso Ojeda, Carlos; Medina Dionicio, Elvis Anthony; Toro, Richard; Manzano, Carlos A.; Leiva-Guzmán, Manuel A.

      (Springer, 2021-02-04)
      Acceso abierto
      The sanitary measures implemented to control and prevent an increase in infections due to the COVID-19 pandemic have produced an improvement in the air quality of many urban areas around the world. We assessed air quality ...
    • Evaluación de la calidad del aire en Lima Metropolitana 2014 

      Sánchez Ccoyllo, Odón; Ordoñez Aquino, Carol; Aliaga Martínez, Rulman; Rojas Quincho, Jhojan Pool

      (Servicio Nacional de Meteorología e Hidrología del Perú, 2015)
      “El objetivo de este informe es realizar la caracterización de la contaminación del aire en Lima Metropolitana mediante la descripción de los valores horarios, diarios, semanales, mensuales y anuales de los aerosoles ...
    • Ozone and volatile organic compounds in the metropolitan area of Lima-Callao, Peru 

      Silva, José; Rojas Quincho, Jhojan Pool; Norabuena Espinoza, Magdalena; Seguel, Rodrigo J.

      (Springer, 2018-07-26)
      This study analyzes ozone formation in the metropolitan area of Lima-Callao as a function of meteorological patterns and the concentrations of nitrogen oxides and reactive organic gases. The study area is located on the ...
    • Particulate matter levels in a South American megacity: the metropolitan area of Lima-Callao, Peru 

      Silva, José; Rojas Quincho, Jhojan Pool; Norabuena Espinoza, Magdalena; Molina, Carolina; Toro, Richard; Leiva-Guzmán, Manuel A.

      (Springer, 2017-11-13)
      Acceso cerrado
      The temporal and spatial trends in the variability of PM10 and PM2.5 from 2010 to 2015 in the metropolitan area of Lima-Callao, Peru, are studied and interpreted in this work. The mean annual concentrations of PM10 and ...
    • Photochemical sensitivity to emissions and local meteorology in Bogotá, Santiago, and São Paulo: An analysis of the initial COVID-19 lockdowns 

      Seguel, Rodrigo J.; Gallardo, Laura; Osses, Mauricio; Rojas, Néstor Y.; Nogueira, Thiago; Menares, Camilo; Andrade, Maria de Fatima; Belalcázar, Luis C.; Carrasco, Paula; Eskes, Henk; Fleming, Zoë L.; Huneeus, Nicolas; Ibarra-Espinosa, Sergio; Landulfo, Eduardo; Leiva, Manuel; Mangones, Sonia C.; Morais, Fernando G.; Moreira, Gregori A.; Pantoja, Nicolás; Parraguez, Santiago; Rojas Quincho, Jhojan Pool; Rondanelli, Roberto; Andrade, Izabel da Silva; Toro, Richard; Yoshida, Alexandre C.

      (University of California Press, 2022)
      Acceso abierto
      This study delves into the photochemical atmospheric changes reported globally during the pandemic by analyzing the change in emissions from mobile sources and the contribution of local meteorology to ozone (O3) and particle ...
    • The Effect of COVID-19 Lockdowns on the Air Pollution of Urban Areas of Central and Southern Chile 

      Morales-Solís, Karina; Ahumada, Hernán; Rojas Quincho, Jhojan Pool; Urdanivia Lermo, Francesco Renato; Catalán, Francisco; Claramunt, Tomas; Toro A., Richard; Manzano, Carlos A.; Leiva-Guzmán, Manuel A.

      (AAGR Aerosol and Air Quality Research, 2021)
      Acceso abierto
      We present the effects of the confinement and physical distancing policies applied during the COVID-19 pandemic on the concentrations of PM10, PM2.5, NO, NO2 and O3 in 16 cities in central and southern Chile. The period ...