Concentrations and Allocation of NO2 Emissions to Different Sources in a Distinctive Italian Region After the COVID-19 Lockdown
Journal of Environmental Protection, 2020, 11, 690-708 https://www.scirp.org/journal/jep ISSN Online: 2152-2219 ISSN Print: 2152-2197 Concentrations and Allocation of NO2 Emissions to Different Sources in a Distinctive Italian Region after the COVID-19 Lockdown Marcello Ruberti*, Luigi Romano Department of Economic Sciences, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy How to cite this paper: Ruberti, M. and Abstract Romano, L. (2020) Concentrations and Allocation of NO2 Emissions to Different Nitrogen dioxide concentrations, being short-lived pollutants, are good indi- Sources in a Distinctive Italian Region after cators of changes in emission sources and economic slowdowns. This analysis the COVID-19 Lockdown. Journal of En- focuses on the Greater Salento region (Italy) and aims to monitor, by investi- vironmental Protection, 11, 690-708. https://doi.org/10.4236/jep.2020.119042 gating the relative sources, the changes of NO2 tropospheric concentrations notoriously related to vehicular traffic exhausts and, in general, to fossil fuel Received: July 31, 2020 combustion processes which are now apparently linked to many COVID-19 Accepted: September 8, 2020 Published: September 11, 2020 patients deaths. The principle objective of this paper is to map the tropos- pheric NO2 local distribution and to extrapolate, from the overall data of aver- Copyright © 2020 by author(s) and age daily concentrations of NO2 as recorded by the ARPA-Puglia ground-based Scientific Research Publishing Inc. monitoring stations, the single contributions and their mutual relationships This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International of the different diffuse emission sources (motor vehicles and domestic heat- License (CC BY 4.0).
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