Implications for air quality management of changes in air quality during lockdown in Auckland (New Zealand) in response to the 2020 SARS-CoV-2 epidemic.


Journal

The Science of the total environment
ISSN: 1879-1026
Titre abrégé: Sci Total Environ
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 0330500

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
01 Dec 2020
Historique:
received: 22 05 2020
revised: 16 07 2020
accepted: 19 07 2020
pubmed: 4 8 2020
medline: 8 10 2020
entrez: 4 8 2020
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

The current changes in vehicle movement due to 'lockdown' conditions (imposed in cities worldwide in response to the COVID-19 epidemic) provide opportunities to quantify the local impact of 'controlled interventions' on air quality and establish baseline pollution concentrations in cities. Here, we present a case study from Auckland, New Zealand, an isolated Southern Hemisphere city, which is largely unaffected by long-range pollution transport or industrial sources of air pollution. In this city, traffic flows reduced by 60-80% as a result of a government-led initiative to contain the virus by limiting all transport to only essential services. In this paper, ambient pollutant concentrations of NO

Identifiants

pubmed: 32745857
pii: S0048-9697(20)34658-1
doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.141129
pmc: PMC7384416
pii:
doi:

Substances chimiques

Air Pollutants 0
Particulate Matter 0

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

141129

Informations de copyright

Copyright © 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

Declaration of competing interest No known competing interests.

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Auteurs

Hamesh Patel (H)

School of Environment, Faculty of Science, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland, New Zealand. Electronic address: hamesh.patel@auckland.ac.nz.

Nick Talbot (N)

School of Environment, Faculty of Science, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland, New Zealand.

Jennifer Salmond (J)

School of Environment, Faculty of Science, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland, New Zealand.

Kim Dirks (K)

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland, New Zealand.

Shanju Xie (S)

Auckland Council, Private Bag 92300, Victoria Street West, Auckland, New Zealand.

Perry Davy (P)

Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences, 30 Gracefield Road, Lower Hutt, New Zealand.

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