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Global impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on surface concentration and health risk of atmospheric benzene
Chaohao Ling
School of History and Geography, Minnan Normal University, Zhangzhou, 363000, China
Lulu Cui
State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution Control, School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China
Rui Li
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Key Laboratory of Geographic Information Science of the Ministry of Education, School of Geographic Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai, 200241, China
Institute of Eco-Chongming (IEC), 20 Cuiniao Road, Chenjia Town, Chongming District, Shanghai, 202162, China
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An ensemble machine-learning model coupled with chemical transport models (CTMs) was applied to assess the impact of COVID-19 on ambient benzene. The change ratio of the deweathered benzene concentration from the pre-lockdown to lockdown period was in the order of India (−23.6 %) > Europe (−21.9 %) > the United States (−16.2 %) > China (−15.6 %), which might be associated with local serious benzene pollution and substantial emission reduction in the industrial and transportation sectors.
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