Effect of lockdown due to SARS COVID-19 on aerosol optical depth (AOD) over urban and mining regions in India.

ABSTRACT: The Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-COronaVIrus Diseases 2019 (SARS-COVID-19) pandemic has posed a serious threat to human health (death) and substantial economic losses across the globe. It was however presumed that extreme preventive measures of entire lockdown in India might have reduced the air pollution level and therefore decreased the aerosol optical depth (AOD). The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS)-based Multi-angle Implementation of Atmospheric Correction (MAIAC) daily AOD product was deployed to investigate the change in AOD level during lockdown phases across the Indian Territory as compared to the long-term mean AOD level (2000-2019) of the same periods. The key findings of the study revealed that AOD level over the Indian Territory is greatly reduced (~4

SUBMITTER: Ranjan AK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7368898 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature