While a previous blog entry dealt with the question whether we can use lessons from the nonlinear nature of climate for projections of the Covid-19 pandemic, there is now a first example of how the pandemic can teach us something on climate. The several weeks long lockdown of China made February 2020 an exceptional month in terms of air quality; aerosol emissions were tremendously reduced leading ...[Read More]
COVID-19-related drop in anthropogenic aerosol emissions in China and corresponding cloud and climate effects
Observed reduced NO2 concentration above China in February 2020. Shown is the difference between February 2020 and the average of February 2018 and 2019. Figure from https://doi.org/10.31223/osf.io/z5dm8.