Global air quality and covid-19 pandemic: Do we breathe cleaner air?
Mehdi Amouei Torkmahalleh,Zarina Akhmetvaliyeva,Ali Darvishi Omran,Faezeh Faezeh Darvish Omran,Mohadeseh Kazemitabar,Mahtab Naseri,Motahareh Naseri,Hamed Sharifi,Milad Malekipirbazari,Enoch Kwasi Adotey,Soudabeh Gorjinezhad,Neda Eghtesadi,Sergei Sabanov,Andrés Alastuey,Maria de Fátima Andrade,Giorgio Buonanno,Samara Carbone,Diego Cardenas-Fuentes,Flemming R. Cassee,Qili Dai,Andrés Henríquez,Philip K. Hopke,Petri Keronen,Haider A. Khwaja,Jong Kim,Markku Kulmala,Prashant Kumar,Jonilda Kushta,Joel Kuula,Jordi Massagué,Tamsin Mitchell,Dennis Mooibroek,Lidia Morawska,Jarkko V. Niemi,Soulemane Halif Ngagine,Michael Norman,Beatriz Oyama,Pedro Oyola,Fatma Öztürk,Tuukka Petäjä,Xavier Querol,Yousef Rashidi,Felipe Reyes,Matthew Ross-Jones,Tunga Salthammer,Chrysanthos Savvides,Luca Stabile,Karin Sjöberg,Karin Söderlund,Ramya Sunder Raman,Hilkka Timonen,Masakazu Umezawa,Mar Viana,Shanju Xie +53 more
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The authors of as discussed by the authors truly appreciate the funding provided by Nazarbayev University through the Collaborative Research Grant (grant number: 091019CRP2104), and they would like to acknowledge the resources provided by CART and EREC to conduct this research.Abstract:
The authors of this study truly appreciate the funding provided by Nazarbayev University
through the Collaborative Research Grant (grant number: 091019CRP2104). MAT, MN, EA, and
NE are the members of the Chemical and Aerosol Research Team (CART) and also the
Environment and Resource Efficiency Cluster (EREC) at Nazarbayev University, and they would
like to acknowledge the resources provided by CART and EREC to conduct this research. For India,
except for Delhi, daily and hourly averaged air quality data were obtained from the Central
Pollution Control Board (CPCB) CCR, OpenAQ or Air quality historical data platform, and location
of stations were obtained from the OpenAQ website. CPCB is gratefully acknowledged for making
the data available. Further, the CPCB data were consolidated and curated by Mr Prem
Maheshwarkar, Earth and Environmental Sciences, IISER Bhopal whose contribution is also
acknowledged. In Chile, the contributions made by Mr. Roberto Martinez, Head of the Planning
and the Standards, Department of the Air Quality and Climate Change Division, Ministry for the
Environment to provide data to this study, are greatly appreciated. In Brazil, CETESB
(Environmental Company of the State of Sao Paulo) is acknowledged for its contribution to data
preparation. In Cyprus, the authors would like to thank the Department of Labor Inspection of
the Ministry of Environment of the Republic of Cyprus for providing the observational data for
their monitoring network. For New Zealand, authors acknowledge the Environment Canterbury
as the source for the Christchurch data. For Spain, Barcelona, the authors would like to thank
"Department of Environmental Quality, Generalitat de Catalunya" as the data source. Turkish
Ministry of Environment and Urbanization and Turkish State of Meteorological Services provided
air quality and meteorological data, respectively, that are greatly appreciated. In the Netherlands,
data were obtained from the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM)
and contained additional data from the GGD Amsterdam (provided by Dave de Jonge) and the
DCMR Environmental Protection Agency (provided by Ed van der Gaag) and National Institute for
Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) that are greatly appreciated. The authors would like
to thank Tehran Air Quality Control Company for providing the data for the city of Tehran.read more
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