Speaker: James Lee

The current COVID-19 outbreak was first identified in Wuhan, China, in December 2019, and was recognized as a pandemic by the World Health Organization on 11 March 2020. As of 17 April 2020, more than 2.2 million cases had been reported in 190 countries, resulting in approximately 150,000 deaths. Efforts to prevent the virus spreading have included severe travel restrictions and the closure of workplaces, inevitably leading to a significant drop in emissions of air pollutants. This provides for a unique opportunity to examine how air pollutant concentrations respond to a sudden and prolonged perturbation and gives us the potential to examine what air pollution will be like with very little transport emission. This talk will focus on the effect of the outbreak on air pollution levels (e.g. NOx, PM2.5, VOCs and O3) in the UK and Europe, based on data from a range of in-situ monitoring networks. 

Wednesday April 29, 2020, 13:00

The seminar will be broadcast live via Zoom, please follow the link below.

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