Significant impacts of COVID-19 lockdown on urban air pollution in Kolkata (India) and amelioration of environmental health.

ABSTRACT: The fatal novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic disease smashes the normal tempo of global socio-economic and cultural livelihood. Most of the countries impose a lockdown system with social distancing measures to arrest the rapid transmission of this virus into the human body. The objective of this study is to examine the status of air quality during and pre-COVID-19 lockdown and to recommend some long-term sustainable environmental management plan. The pollution data like PM₁₀, PM_2.5, O₃, SO₂, NO₂ and CO have been obtained from State Pollution Control Board under Govt. of West Bengal. Similarly, various land surface temperature (LST) maps have been prepared using LANDSAT-8 OLI and LANDSAT-7 ETM + images of USGS. The maps of NO_2</

SUBMITTER: Bera B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7384893 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature