A132
Satellite-Based Air Quality and Atmospheric Composition Impacts of COVID-19 I eLightning

Friday, 11 December 2020: 16:00-17:00
Virtual
Primary Convener:  Dylan B. A. Jones, University of Toronto, Department of Physics, Toronto, ON, Canada
Conveners:  Alexander J. Turner, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States and Kazuyuki Miyazaki, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Dylan B. A. Jones, University of Toronto, Department of Physics, Toronto, ON, Canada
Chairs:  Dylan B. A. Jones, University of Toronto, Department of Physics, Toronto, ON, Canada, Kazuyuki Miyazaki, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States and Alexander J. Turner, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Alexander J. Turner, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
16:00
Abrupt decline in tropospheric nitrogen dioxide after the outbreak of COVID-19 (Invited) (664980)
Fei Liu1,2, Aaron Page3, Sarah A Strode1,2, Yasuko Yoshida2,4, Sungyeon Choi2,4, Steven Smith5, K. Emma Knowland1,6, Bo Zheng7, Lok N Lamsal1,2, Can Li2,8, Nickolay Anatoly Krotkov2, Henk Eskes9, Joris P Veefkind9,10, Ronald van der A11, Pieternel Levelt10,11, Oliver P Hauser12 and Joanna Joiner2, (1)Universities Space Research Association Greenbelt, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)University of Exeter, Department of Management, Exeter, United Kingdom, (4)SSAI, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)Joint Global Change Research Institute, College Park, MD, United States, (6)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (7)Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement, Paris, France, (8)Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College PARK, MD, United States, (9)Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, De Bilt, 3730, Netherlands, (10)Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands, (11)Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, De Bilt, Netherlands, (12)University of Exeter, Department of Economics, Exeter, United Kingdom
16:03
Global trends in carbon monoxide abundance and emissions (686291)
Helen Marie Worden1, Rebecca R Buchholz1, Sara Martinez-Alonso2, Benjamin Gaubert1, Merritt N Deeter1, Zhe Jiang3, A. Anthony Bloom4, Kazuyuki Miyazaki4, John Worden4 and Bo Zheng5, (1)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Atmospheric Chemistry Observations & Modeling Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, (4)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)LSCE Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Gif-Sur-Yvette Cedex, France
16:06
Improvement in Air Quality in Los Angeles due to Decreases in Traffic during the COVID-19 Outbreak based on High Resolution, Real-Time Data and Modeling (664462)
Jiani Yang1, Yuan Wang1, Yifan Wen2, Shaojun Zhang2, Joseph P Pinto3, Ye Wu2 and Yuk L Yung1, (1)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, (3)University of North Carolina, Dept. of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
16:09
Did the COVID-19 lockdown allow for the first identification of NH3 transportation emissions using satellite-based observations? (739513)
Daven K Henze1, Hansen Cao1, Karen Cady-Pereira2, Kevin W Bowman3, Kang Sun4 and Brian C McDonald5, (1)University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Lexington, MA, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)University at Buffalo, Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, Buffalo, NY, United States, (5)Chemical Sciences Laboratory, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratories, Boulder, CO, United States
16:12
Changing Spatial Distribution of NO2 in Atlanta During the COVID-19 Pandemic (717217)
Jennifer Kaiser1,2, Asher Paul Mouat1, Linghan Zeng2, Armistead G Russell1, Yun Dong3, Nabil Nowak3 and Elena Spinei3, (1)Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Atlanta, GA, United States, (2)Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Atlanta, GA, United States, (3)Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States
16:15
Global NOx emission reductions and tropospheric chemistry response linked to the world-wide COVID-19 lockdowns (711213)
Kazuyuki Miyazaki1, Kevin W Bowman2, Takashi Sekiya3, Masayuki Takigawa4, Henk Eskes5, Jessica L. Neu2, Vivienne Payne6 and Thomas Walker7, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Research Institute for Global Change, Kanagawa, Japan, (4)JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokohama, Japan, (5)Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, De Bilt, 3730, Netherlands, (6)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (7)Carleton University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ottawa, ON, Canada
16:18
Covid-19 Shutdowns as an Unplanned Atmospheric Composition Experiment (Invited) (670315)
Trissevgeni Stavrakou1, Jean-Francois Muller2, Maite Bauwens2, Lara Noppen3, Sabine Darras4, Thierno Doumbia5, Nellie Elguindi5, Claire Granier6, Yiming Liu7,8, Tao Wang9, Xiaoqin Shi10, Idir Bouarar10, Guy P Brasseur10 and TROPOMI Product Development Team, (1)Belgisch Instituut voor Ruimte-Aeronomie, Brussel, Belgium, (2)Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy, Brussels, Belgium, (3)University of Brussels, Brussels, Belgium, (4)Observatoire Midi-Pyrenees, Toulouse, France, (5)Laboratoire d'Aérologie - Observatoire Midi Pyrénées, Toulouse, France, (6)NOAA and LATMOS/IPSL, Boulder, United States, (7)Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, (8)Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Department of Civil and Envirnmental Engineering, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, (9)Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Hong Kong, China, (10)Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany
16:21
Changes in Trans-Boundary Air Pollution over Japan during COVID-19 Lockdown in China (679170)
Syuichi Itahashi, Central Research Institute of Electic Power Industry, Tokyo, Japan, Zhe Wang, Research Institute for Applied Mechanics, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, Keiya Yumimoto, Kyushu University, Kasuga, Japan and Itsushi Uno, Kyushu Univ, Fukuoka, Japan
16:24
Air Quality Assessment in São Paulo, Brazil during Covid-19 pandemic: links between isolation rates and pollutants (757261)
Milena Ponczek1, Janaina Mayara Pinto Nascimento2, Alex Araujo1, Djacinto Monteiro dos Santos Jr3, André Cezar Pugliesi1 and Bruno Meller3, (1)University of São Paulo, Physics Institute, São Paulo, Brazil, (2)INPA National Institute for Amazonian Research, Manaus, Brazil, (3)University of Sao Paulo, Physics Institute, Sao Paulo, United States
16:27
Influence of Anthropogenic Emission Reduction on O3 Chemical Formation Regimes in California during the COVID-19 Pandemic (760615)
Hyung Joo Lee1, Jason Schroeder1, Toshihiro Kuwayama1, Jeremy Avise1, Michael FitzGibbon1 and Elizabeth Scheehle2, (1)California Air Resources Board, Sacramento, CA, United States, (2)California Environmental Protection Agency Air Resources Board, Sacramento, CA, United States
16:30
Impacts of COVID-19 Control Measures on Tropospheric NO2 over China, South Korea and Italy (689244)
Jiaqi Chen1, Zhe Jiang1, Kazuyuki Miyazaki2, Rui Zhu1, Xiaokang Chen1, Liao Chenggong3, Dylan B. A. Jones4, Kevin W Bowman2 and Takashi Sekiya5, (1)University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)Department of Oncology, Tangdu Hospital, Cancer Institute, Fourth Military Medical University, Xian, Shannxi, China, Xian, China, (4)University of Toronto, Department of Physics, Toronto, ON, Canada, (5)Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokohama, Japan
16:33
Sector-based inversion of CO emissions during the COVID-19 lockdown (711348)
Benjamin Gaubert1, Simone Tilmes2, Wenfu Tang3, Forrest Lacey3, Louisa K Emmons3, Sara Martinez-Alonso1, Helen Marie Worden1, David P Edwards1, Kevin Raeder4, Jeffrey L Anderson3, Andrew Gettelman3, Kazuyuki Miyazaki5, Thierno Doumbia6, Nellie Elguindi6, Claire Granier7,8, Guy P Brasseur9,10, Avelino F Arellano Jr11 and Nadia Smith12, (1)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Atmospheric Chemistry Observations & Modeling Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Atmospheric Chemistry, Observations, and Modeling Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Computational & Information Systems Lab, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (6)Laboratoire d'Aérologie - Observatoire Midi Pyrénées, Toulouse, France, (7)Laboratoire d'Aerologie, Toulouse, France, (8)University of Colorado/CIRES and NOAA ESRL, Boulder, CO, United States, (9)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States, (10)Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany, (11)University of Arizona, Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, Tucson, AZ, United States, (12)Science and Technology Corporation, Boulder, CO, United States
16:36
Quantifying Changes in NOx Emissions in China during the COVID-19 Pandemic Using a Neural Network Approach (716648)
Tai-Long He1, Dylan B. A. Jones1, Kazuyuki Miyazaki2 and Kevin W. Bowman2, (1)University of Toronto, Department of Physics, Toronto, ON, Canada, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
16:39
Assessing the Impact of Corona-Virus-19 on Nitrogen Dioxide Levels over Southern Ontario, Canada (746386)
Debora Griffin1, Chris A McLinden1, Jacinthe Racine2, Michael D Moran1, Vitali E. Fioletov1, Radenko Pavlovic3 and Henk Eskes4, (1)Environment and Climate Change Canada, Air Quality Research Division, Toronto, ON, Canada, (2)Environment Canada, Meteorological Service of Canada, Montreal, QC, Canada, (3)Environment and Climate Change Canada, Meteorological Service of Canada, Dorval, Canada, (4)Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, De Bilt, 3730, Netherlands
16:42
COVID-19 Lockdowns Improve Air Quality in the South-East Asian Regions, as Seen by the Remote Sensing Satellites (725881)
Abirlal Metya1, Panini Dasgupta1, Santanu Halder2, Supriyo Chakraborty3 and Yogesh Kumar Tiwari4, (1)Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune, India, (2)Research Fellow, CCCR, Pune, India, (3)Indian Institute of Tropical Teteorology, CCCR, Pune, Maharashtra, India, (4)Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune, India, Pune, Maharashtra, India
16:45
Non-negligible impacts of clean air regulations on the reduction of tropospheric NO2 over East China during the COVID-19 pandemic observed by OMI and TROPOMI (734946)
Guanyu Huang, Department of Environmental & Health Sciences, Spelman College, Atlanta, GA, United States and Kang Sun, University at Buffalo, RENEW Institute, Buffalo, NY, United States; University at Buffalo, Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, Buffalo, NY, United States
16:48
Discussion
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