Effect of the COVID-19 Lockdown on Air Pollution in the Ostrava Region

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61989100%3A27350%2F21%3A10247925" target="_blank" >RIV/61989100:27350/21:10247925 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/61989100:27360/21:10247925 RIV/61989100:27710/21:10247925
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18168265" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18168265</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18168265" target="_blank" >10.3390/ijerph18168265</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Effect of the COVID-19 Lockdown on Air Pollution in the Ostrava Region
Original language description
A proper estimation of anti-epidemic measures related to the influence of the COVID-19 outbreak on air quality has to deal with filtering out the weather influence on pollution concentrations. The goal of this study was to estimate the effect of anti-epidemic measures at three pollution monitoring stations in the Ostrava region. Meteorological data were clustered into groups with a similar weather pattern, and pollution data were divided into subsets according to weather patterns. Then each subset was evaluated separately. Our estimates showed a 4.1-5.7% decrease in NOx concentrations attributed to lower traffic intensity during the lockdown. The decrease of PM2.5 varied more significantly between monitoring stations. The highest decrease (4.7%) was detected at the traffic monitoring station, while there was no decrease detected at the rural monitoring station, which focuses mainly on domestic heating pollution. The key result of the study was the development of an analytical method that is able to take into account the effect of meteorological conditions. The method is much simpler and easy to replicate as an alternative to other published methods.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10511 - Environmental sciences (social aspects to be 5.7)

Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
ISSN
1661-7827
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
18
Issue of the periodical within the volume
16
Country of publishing house
CH - SWITZERLAND
Number of pages
20
Pages from-to
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UT code for WoS article
000689115400001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
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