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Effects of COVID-19 pandemic control measures on air pollution in Lima metropolitan area, Peru in South America
(Springer, 2021-02-04)
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 ...
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A framework for research linking weather, climate and COVID-19
(Nature Research, 2020)
When COVID-19 began to spread, environmental scientists recognized that the world faced a dangerous upper respiratory viral disease that might exhibit sensitivity to seasonal weather conditions. Many of these scientists ...
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Air pollution and COVID-19 lockdown in a large South American city: Santiago Metropolitan Area, Chile
(Elsevier B.V., 2021-02)
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 ...
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Association between air pollution in Lima and the high incidence of COVID-19: findings from a post hoc analysis
(BioMed Central Ltd, 2021)
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 ...
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The Effect of COVID-19 Lockdowns on the Air Pollution of Urban Areas of Central and Southern Chile
(AAGR Aerosol and Air Quality Research, 2021)
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 ...
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A global observational analysis to understand changes in air quality during exceptionally low anthropogenic emission conditions
(Elsevier, 2021-08)
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 ...
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