Air quality changes during the COVID-19 lockdown over the Yangtze River Delta Region: an insight into the impact of human activity pattern changes on air pollution variation. [Dataset]

Abstract

At the end of the year 2019, the tragic coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic occurred (Tian et al., 2020; Wang et al., 2020a) which has caused over 2.95 million global infections and 1931,000 deaths as of this writing (28th April 2020). Moreover the pandemic has caused enormorous economic and social disruption (Wang et al., 2020a). To control the rapid spread of the disease to protect people's health, China has enacted emergency response procedures, and required people to stay at home instead of going out beginning from late January 2020 (Tian et al., 2020; Wang et al., 2020b), resulting in significant reduction in the number of vehicle kilometres travelled (VKT), industrial operations, constructions, and even restaurants in operation, etc.

Citation

LI, L., LI, Q., HUANG, L., WANG, Q., ZHU, A., XU, J., LIU, Z., LI, H., SHI, L., LI, R., AZARI, M., WANG, Y., ZHANG, X., LIU, Z., ZHU, Y., ZHANG, K., XUE, S., OOI, M.C.G., ZHANG, D. and CHAN, A. 2020. Air quality changes during the COVID-19 lockdown over the Yangtze River Delta region: an insight into the impact of human activity pattern changes on air pollution variation. [Dataset]. Science of the total environment [online], 732, article 139282. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.139282

• Acceptance Date: May 6, 2020
• Online Publication Date: May 11, 2020
• Publication Date: Aug 25, 2020
• Deposit Date: Apr 10, 2023
• Publicly Available Date: Apr 10, 2023
• Publisher: Elsevier
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.139282
• Keywords: Pollution; Air quality; COVID-19; Yangtze River Delta
• Public URL: https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/1937732
• Type of Data: Supplementary figures and tables.
• Collection Date: Mar 31, 2020
• Collection Method: The hourly ambient mass concentrations of criteria air pollutants including SO2, NO2, CO, O3, PM2.5 and PM10 are downloaded from the real time data published by the air monitoring data centre of Ministry of Ecology and Environment of the People's Republic of China (http://datacenter.mep.gov.cn). The meterological data are obtained from both National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)'s National Climate Data Center archive (http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/ncdc.html) and the National Data Center of the Chinese Meteorology Agency (http://data.cma.cn/). The full description of Methodologies can be found in Section 2 in the published article (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.139282).