Air-pollutant mass concentration changes during COVID-19 pandemic in Shanghai, China
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Air-pollutant mass concentration changes during COVID-19 pandemic in Shanghai, China Zhi Niu 1 & Tingting Hu 1 & Lin Kong 1 & Wenqi Zhang 1 & Pinhua Rao 1 & Dafeng Ge 2 & Mengge Zhou 1 & Yuseng Duan 3 Received: 25 August 2020 / Accepted: 13 October 2020 # Springer Nature B.V. 2020
Abstract To curb the spread of the coronavirus, China implemented lockdown policies on January 23, 2020. The resulting extreme changes in human behavior may have influenced the air pollutants concentration. However, despite these changes, hazy weather persisted in Shanghai and became a public issue. This study aims to investigate air pollutant mass concentration changes during the lockdown in Shanghai. Air pollutant mass concentration data and meteorological data during the pre-lockdown period and the level I response lockdown period were analyzed by statistical analysis and a Lagrangian particle diffusion model. The data was classified in three periods: P1 (pre-lockdown: 10 days before the Spring Festival), P2 (the first 10 days after lockdown: during the Spring Festival celebration), and P3 (the second 10 days after lockdown: after the Spring Festival). Data for the same period in 2019 were used as a reference. The results indicate that the Spring Festival holiday in 2019 resulted in a reduction in energy consumption, which led to a decrease in PM2.5 (26.4%) and NO2 (43.41%) mass concentration, but an increase in ozone mass concentration (31.39%) in P2 compared with P1. The integrated effect of the Spring Festival holiday and lockdown in 2020 resulted in a decrease in PM2.5 (36.5%) and NO2 (51.9%) mass concentrations, but an increase in ozone mass concentration (43.8%) in P2 compared with P1. After the Spring Festival, the mass concentrations of PM2.5, SO2, and NO2 increased by 74.41%, 5.52%, and 53.28%, respectively in P3 compared with P2 in 2019. However, PM2.5 and SO2 concentrations in 2020 continued to decrease, by 14.74% and 4.61%, respectively, while NO2 mass concentration increased by 7.82% in P3 compared with P2. We also found that PM2.5 mass concentration is susceptible to regional transmission from the surrounding cities. PM2.5 and other gaseous pollutants show different correlations in different periods, while NO2 and O3 always show a strong negative correlation. The principal components before the Spring Festival in 2019 were O3 and NO2, and after the Spring Festival, they were PM2.5 and CO, while the principal components before the lockdown in 2020 were PM2.5 and CO, and during lockdown they were O3 and NO2. Keywords COVID-19 . Air-pollutant mass concentration . Lagrangian particle dispersion model . Spring festival . Shanghai
Introduction Urban air quality can be improved by controlling anthropogenic emissions. China has a lot of successful examples, such Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (https://doi.org/10.1007/s11869-020-00956-x) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. * Tingting Hu [email protected] 1
Shool of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
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