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Atmospheric Environment and COVID‐19 Pandemic

A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Air Quality and Health".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2022) | Viewed by 2256

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Dr. Wai-Kit Ming

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Department of Infectious Diseases and Public Health, Jockey Club College of Veterinary Medicine and Life Sciences, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 999077, China
Interests: public health; health policy; health economics; clinical research; one health
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The latest United Nations report has pointed out that the COVID-19 pandemic has not slowed down climate change. The emission reductions following the emerging COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020 appear to be only a short-term phenomenon, and the concentration of major greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming is still increasing. Along with the easing of the pandemic, air pollution is still a major threat to public health. In addition, the increasing degree of ozone pollution has augmented such threats and challenges. The COVID-19 pandemic, though remaining a great challenge, may offer the world a new perspective on tackling the existing threats of air pollution and public health problems.

We invite submissions to this Special Issue: Atmospheric Environment and COVID‐19 Pandemic in Atmosphere. In this Special Issue, we seek COVID-19-related original research papers and reviews on, but not limited to, the sources of air pollutants, measurements of air pollutants, meteorological determinants, emerging issues of air pollution, atmosphere-related health-impact assessments, virus transmission in the atmosphere, atmosphere-associated human behaviors, and atmospheric impacts on various health outcomes.

Dr. Wai-kit Ming
Dr. Casper J.P. Zhang
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Keywords

  • climate change
  • health policy
  • meteorological condition
  • coronavirus pandemic
  • public health
  • human behavior

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Study of the Effect of Urban Densification and Micrometeorology on the Sustainability of a Coronavirus-Type Pandemic
by Patricio Pacheco and Eduardo Mera
Atmosphere 2022, 13(7), 1073; https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos13071073 - 7 Jul 2022
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This research examines the persistence of a pandemic in urban environments subjected to intensive densification processes, applying chaotic analysis tools to hourly time series constructed by relating accumulated patients with meteorological and pollutant variables (measured at ground level). To investigate this objective, seven [...] Read more.
This research examines the persistence of a pandemic in urban environments subjected to intensive densification processes, applying chaotic analysis tools to hourly time series constructed by relating accumulated patients with meteorological and pollutant variables (measured at ground level). To investigate this objective, seven communes of the metropolitan region of Santiago de Chile that present intensive urbanization processes that affect urban micrometeorology, favoring the concentration of pollutants, were considered. Quotients were constructed between the number of hourly patients with SARS-CoV-2 that accumulated in each commune over a period of two years and the hourly variables of urban micrometeorology (temperature, magnitude of wind speed, relative humidity) and pollutant concentration (tropospheric ozone, particulate material of 2.5 and 10 μm) constituting a new family of time series. Chaos theory was applied to these new time series, obtaining the chaotic parameters Lyapunov coefficient, correlation entropy, Lempel–Ziv complexity, Hurst coefficient and the fractal dimension in each measurement commune. The results showed that the accumulated patients (2020–2022), of the order of 400,000, belonged to the five communes (with a built area of approximately 300,000 m2 in recent years) that had the highest urban densification, which affected urban meteorology, favored the concentration of pollutants and made the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic more persistent. The “ideal” density of built housing should balance a pandemic and nullify its expansion. Full article
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