A057-02
Overview of NOAA Research on Atmospheric Impacts Related to the COVID-19 Pandemic

Wednesday, 9 December 2020: 04:04
Virtual
Gregory J Frost1,2, Jessica Gilman1, Brian C McDonald1, Monika Kopacz2, Kenneth Mooney2, Ariel F Stein3, Rick D Saylor4, Daniel Tong3,5, Patrick C Campbell3,5, Xinrong Ren3,6, James H Butler7, Kathleen O Lantz7,8, Colm Sweeney7, Georg Grell9, Stan Benjamin9, Vaishali Naik10, Yi Ming11, V Ramaswamy11, Shobha Kondragunta12, Mitch Goldberg13 and Ivanka Stajner14, (1)NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)NOAA Climate Program Office, Silver Spring, MD, United States, (3)NOAA Air Resources Laboratory, College Park, MD, United States, (4)NOAA Air Resources Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (5)George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, United States, (6)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (7)NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, (8)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (9)NOAA Global Systems Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, (10)NOAA/Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States, (11)NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States, (12)NOAA NESDIS STAR, College Park, MD, United States, (13)NOAA NESDIS Senior Scientist, Silver Spring, MD, United States, (14)NOAA National Weather Service, Boulder, CO, United States
Recorded Presentation
Abstract:
The COVID-19 pandemic is causing worldwide disruptions to economic activity, transportation, and society as a whole. Since the beginning of the crisis, NOAA’s research enterprise has been working to assess the pandemic’s impacts on the atmosphere and to use this unique opportunity to better understand human influences on the Earth system. Through its measurements and modeling, NOAA is quantifying the atmospheric state during the economic slowdown and eventual recovery. NOAA’s studies provide information on pandemic-related emissions perturbations and the role of emissions relative to other drivers of atmospheric composition changes. NOAA’s research aims to understand how COVID-related societal disruptions are impacting air quality, the Earth’s radiative balance, and the broader Earth system. These research advances have the potential to transition to operational applications, including NOAA air quality and weather forecasts, satellite products, and epidemiological predictions.
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