Societal shifts due to COVID-19 reveal large-scale complexities and feedbacks between atmospheric chemistry and climate change

Laughner, Joshua L.; Neu, Jessica L.; Schimel, David; Wennberg, Paul O.; Barsanti, Kelley; Bowman, Kevin W.; Chatterjee, Abhishek; Croes, Bart E.; Fitzmaurice, Helen L.; Henze, Daven K.; Kim, Jinsol; Kort, Eric A.; Liu, Zhu; Miyazaki, Kazuyuki; Turner, Alexander J.; Anenberg, Susan; Avise, Jeremy; Cao, Hansen; Crisp, David; de Gouw, Joost; Eldering, Annmarie; Fyfe, John C.; Goldberg, Daniel L.; Gurney, Kevin R.; Hasheminassab, Sina; Hopkins, Francesca; Ivey, Cesunica E.; Jones, Dylan B. A.; Liu, Junjie; Lovenduski, Nicole S.; Martin, Randall V.; McKinley, Galen A.; Ott, Lesley; Poulter, Benjamin; Ru, Muye; Sander, Stanley P.; Swart, Neil; Yung, Yuk L.; Zeng, Zhao-Cheng

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Societal shifts due to COVID-19 reveal large-scale complexities and feedbacks between atmospheric chemistry and climate change

2021
By Laughner, Joshua L. ; Neu, Jessica L. ; Schimel, David ; ...

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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Laughner, Joshua L. ; Neu, Jessica L. ; Schimel, David ; Wennberg, Paul O. ; Barsanti, Kelley ; Bowman, Kevin W. ; Chatterjee, Abhishek ; Croes, Bart E. ; Fitzmaurice, Helen L. ; Henze, Daven K. ; Kim, Jinsol ; Kort, Eric A. ; Liu, Zhu ; Miyazaki, Kazuyuki ; Turner, Alexander J. ; Anenberg, Susan ; Avise, Jeremy ; Cao, Hansen ; Crisp, David ; de Gouw, Joost ; Eldering, Annmarie ; Fyfe, John C. ; Goldberg, Daniel L. ; Gurney, Kevin R. ; Hasheminassab, Sina ; Hopkins, Francesca ; Ivey, Cesunica E. ; Jones, Dylan B. A. ; Liu, Junjie ; Lovenduski, Nicole S. ; Martin, Randall V. ; McKinley, Galen A. ; Ott, Lesley ; Poulter, Benjamin ; Ru, Muye ; Sander, Stanley P. ; Swart, Neil ; Yung, Yuk L. ; Zeng, Zhao-Cheng
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Significance The COVID-19 pandemic and associated lockdowns caused significant changes to human activity that temporarily altered our imprint on the atmosphere, providing a brief glimpse of potential future changes in atmospheric composition. This event demonstrated key feedbacks within and between air quality and the carbon cycle: Improvements in air quality increased the lifetime of methane (an important greenhouse gas), while unusually hot weather and intense wildfires in Los Angeles drove poor air quality. This shows that efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve air quality cannot be considered separately.
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Multidisciplinary
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(46)
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https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2109481118
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0027-8424 ; 1091-6490
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