COVID-19 lockdown effects on a coastal marine environment: Disentangling perception versus reality.

ABSTRACT: COVID-19 lockdown brought to a drastic reduction of anthropic impacts on the environment worldwide, including the marine-coastal system. Earth-Observation (EO) data have the potential to monitor and diagnose the effects of the lockdown in terms of water quality. Here we connect the dots among some coastal environmental changes that occurred during the Italian COVID-19 lockdown by using EO data, also seeking to assess connectivity between inland and marine systems. We present a holistic analysis of spatial and temporal variability of environmental parameters in the North Adriatic Sea, Mediterranean basin, exploiting the synergy of different satellite sensors, as well as hydrologic data from in situ observations. Our analysis indicates a favourable interplay of environmental variability that

SUBMITTER: Braga F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8748204 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature