Publications (5)
COVID-19 causes record decline in global CO2 emissions
Zhu Liu, Philippe Ciais, Zhu Deng +37
The considerable cessation of human activities during the COVID-19 pandemic has affected global energy use and CO2 emissions. Here we show the unprecedented decrease in global foss…
Significant reduced traffic in Beijing failed to relieve haze pollution during the COVID-19 lockdown: implications for haze mitigation
Zhaofeng Lv, Xiaotong Wang, Fanyuan Deng +12
The COVID-19 outbreak greatly limited human activities and reduced primary emissions particularly from urban on-road vehicles, but coincided with Beijing experiencing pandemic haze…
Spring Festival points the way to cleaner air in China
Siwen Wang, Hang Su, David G. Streets +6
Human migration during the Chinese Spring Festival (SF) is the largest collective human activity of its kind in the modern era-involving about one-tenth of the world population and…
Tracking Air Pollution in China: Near Real-Time PM2.5 Retrievals from Multiple Data Sources
Guannan Geng, Qingyang Xiao, Shigan Liu +9
Air pollution has altered the Earth radiation balance, disturbed the ecosystem and increased human morbidity and mortality. Accordingly, a full-coverage high-resolution air polluta…
Satellite-based estimates of decline and rebound in China's CO emissions during COVID-19 pandemic
Bo Zheng, Guannan Geng, Philippe Ciais +13
Changes in CO emissions during the COVID-19 pandemic have been estimated from indicators on activities like transportation and electricity generation. Here, we instead use sate…