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Articles | Volume 22, issue 11
Articles | Volume 22, issue 11
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-7105-2022
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-7105-2022
© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 22, issue 11
Research article
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02 Jun 2022
Research article |  | 02 Jun 2022

Secondary PM2.5 decreases significantly less than NO2 emission reductions during COVID lockdown in Germany

Vigneshkumar Balamurugan, Jia Chen, Zhen Qu, Xiao Bi, and Frank N. Keutsch

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In this study, we investigated the response of secondary pollutants to changes in precursor emissions, focusing on the formation of secondary PM, during the COVID-19 lockdown period. We show that, due to the decrease in primary NOx emissions, atmospheric oxidizing capacity is increased. The nighttime increase in ozone, caused by less NO titration, results in higher NO3 radicals, which contribute significantly to the formation of PM nitrates. O3 should be limited in order to control PM pollution.
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