Articles | Volume 20, issue 18
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-11119-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-11119-2020
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29 Sep 2020
Research article |  | 29 Sep 2020

Meteorology-normalized impact of the COVID-19 lockdown upon NO2 pollution in Spain

Hervé Petetin, Dene Bowdalo, Albert Soret, Marc Guevara, Oriol Jorba, Kim Serradell, and Carlos Pérez García-Pando

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HERMESv3_BU model (Version v0.1.1) M. Guevara, C. Tena, O. Jorba, and C. P. García-Pando https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3521897

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To control the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, the Spanish Government recently implemented a strict lockdown of the population, which strongly reduced the levels of nitrogen dioxide (NO2), one of the most critical air pollutants in Spain. This study quantifies the contribution of the lockdown on these reduced NO2 levels in Spain, taking the confounding effect of meteorology on artificial intelligence techniques into account.
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