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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-10901-2022
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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-10901-2022
© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Research article
| 
26 Aug 2022
Research article |
| 26 Aug 2022
| 26 Aug 2022
Numerical simulation of the impact of COVID-19 lockdown on tropospheric composition and aerosol radiative forcing in Europe
Simon F. Reifenberg
Atmospheric Chemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany
now at: MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Science, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Anna Martin
Atmospheric Chemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany
Matthias Kohl
Atmospheric Chemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany
Sara Bacer
Atmospheric Chemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany
Zaneta Hamryszczak
Atmospheric Chemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany
Ivan Tadic
Atmospheric Chemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany
Lenard Röder
Atmospheric Chemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany
Daniel J. Crowley
Atmospheric Chemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany
Horst Fischer
Atmospheric Chemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany
Katharina Kaiser
Particle Chemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany
Johannes Schneider
Particle Chemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany
Raphael Dörich
Atmospheric Chemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany
John N. Crowley
Atmospheric Chemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany
Laura Tomsche
Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
Institute for Physics of the Atmosphere, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany
Andreas Marsing
Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
Christiane Voigt
Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
Institute for Physics of the Atmosphere, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany
Andreas Zahn
Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
Christopher Pöhlker
Multiphase Chemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany
Bruna A. Holanda
Multiphase Chemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany
Ovid Krüger
Multiphase Chemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany
Ulrich Pöschl
Multiphase Chemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany
Mira Pöhlker
Multiphase Chemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany
Faculty of Physics and Earth Sciences, Leipzig Institute for Meteorology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
Experimental Aerosol and Cloud Microphysics Department, Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research, Leipzig, Germany
Patrick Jöckel
Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
Marcel Dorf
Atmospheric Chemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany
Ulrich Schumann
Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
Jonathan Williams
Atmospheric Chemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany
Birger Bohn
Institute of Energy and Climate Research, IEK-8: Troposphere, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany
Joachim Curtius
Institute for Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, Goethe University of Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Hardwig Harder
Atmospheric Chemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany
Hans Schlager
Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
Jos Lelieveld
Atmospheric Chemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany
Climate and Atmosphere Research Center, The Cyprus Institute, Nicosia, Cyprus
Atmospheric Chemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany
Climate and Atmosphere Research Center, The Cyprus Institute, Nicosia, Cyprus
Data sets
Mission: BLUESKY DLR https://doi.org/10.17616/R39Q0T
Model code and software
Modular Earth Submodel System MESSy http://www.messy-interface.org
Short summary
In this work we use a combination of observational data from an aircraft campaign and model results to investigate the effect of the European lockdown due to COVID-19 in spring 2020. Using model results, we show that the largest relative changes to the atmospheric composition caused by the reduced emissions are located in the upper troposphere around aircraft cruise altitude, while the largest absolute changes are present at the surface.
In this work we use a combination of observational data from an aircraft campaign and model...
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