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Towards Disentangling Lockdown-Driven Air Quality Changes in the Northeastern U.S.

Christian Braneon

NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, 2880 Broadway, New York, USA

SciSpace LLC, 6550 Rock Spring Drive, Suite 600, Bethesda, USA

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Robert Field

NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, 2880 Broadway, New York, USA

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Edmund Seto

Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington 4225 Roosevelt Way NE, Seattle, USA

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Kai Chen

Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Yale University, P.O. Box 208034, New Haven, USA

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Kathryn McConnell

School of the Environment, Yale University, 195 Prospect St, New Haven, USA

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Lorrin Robinson

Center for Advanced Communications Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology, 500 10th Street NW, Atlanta, USA

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Safiya Richardson

Institute of Health Innovations and Outcomes Research, Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, Northwell Health, Manhasset, USA

Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, Northwell Health, Hempstead, USA

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https://doi.org/10.1142/S2345737621500172Cited by:2 (Source: Crossref)

This article is part of the issue:

Special Issue on COVID-19 as an Extreme Event in the New York Metropolitan Region (Part 2)
Editors: Peter J. Marcotullio and William D. Solecki

Abstract

In the absence of preventive therapies or effective treatment for most cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), governments worldwide have sought to minimize person-to-person severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) transmission through a variety of lock-down measures and social distancing policies. Extreme events like the COVID-19 pandemic present a tremendous opportunity to make quantitative connections between changes in anthropogenic forcing, social and economic activity, and the related Earth system response. In this paper, we examine the air quality impacts associated with the pandemic response measures in the Northeastern United States.

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