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Impact of lockdown measures to combat Covid-19 on air quality over western Europe

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Recent studies based on observations have shown the impact of lockdown measures taken in various European countries to contain the Covid-19 pandemic on air quality. However, these studies are often limited to compare situations without and with lockdown measures, which correspond to different time periods and then under different meteorological conditions. We propose a modelling study with the WRF-CHIMERE modelling suite for March 2020, an approach allowing to compare atmospheric composition with and without lockdown measures without the biases of meteorological conditions. This study shows that the lockdown effect on atmospheric composition , in particular through massive traffic reductions, has been important for several short-lived atmospheric trace species, with a large reduction in NO 2 concentrations, a lower reduction in Particulate Matter (PM) concentrations and a mitigated effect on ozone concentrations due to non-linear chemical effects.
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hal-02935808 , version 1 (10-09-2020)

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Laurent Menut, Bertrand Bessagnet, Guillaume Siour, Sylvain Mailler, Romain Pennel, et al.. Impact of lockdown measures to combat Covid-19 on air quality over western Europe. Science of the Total Environment, 2020, 741, pp.140426. ⟨10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.140426⟩. ⟨hal-02935808⟩
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