The lockdown policy deals a severe blow to the economy and greatly reduces the nitrogen oxides(NOx)emission in China when the coronavirus 2019 spreads widely in early 2020.Here we use satellite observations from Tropo...The lockdown policy deals a severe blow to the economy and greatly reduces the nitrogen oxides(NOx)emission in China when the coronavirus 2019 spreads widely in early 2020.Here we use satellite observations from Tropospheric Monitoring Instrument to study the year-round variation of the nitrogen dioxide(NO_(2))tropospheric vertical column density(TVCD)in 2020.The NO_(2)TVCD reveals a sharp drop,followed by small fluctuations and then a strong rebound when compared to 2019.By the end of 2020,the annual average NO_(2)TVCD declines by only 3.4%in Chinamainland,much less than the reduction of 24.1%in the lockdown period.On the basis of quantitative analysis,we find the rebound of NO_(2)TVCD is mainly caused by the rapid recovery of economy especially in the fourth quarter,when contribution of industry and power plant on NO_(2)TVCD continues to rise.This revenge bounce of NO_(2)indicates the emission reduction of NOx in lockdown period is basically offset by the recovery of economy,revealing the fact that China’s economic development and NOx emissions are still not decoupled.More efforts are still required to stimulate low-pollution development.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.41822505 and 42061130213)the special fund from the State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution Control(No.20L01ESPC)H.L.is supported by the Royal Society of UK through a Newton Advanced Fellowship(NAF\R1\201166).
文摘The lockdown policy deals a severe blow to the economy and greatly reduces the nitrogen oxides(NOx)emission in China when the coronavirus 2019 spreads widely in early 2020.Here we use satellite observations from Tropospheric Monitoring Instrument to study the year-round variation of the nitrogen dioxide(NO_(2))tropospheric vertical column density(TVCD)in 2020.The NO_(2)TVCD reveals a sharp drop,followed by small fluctuations and then a strong rebound when compared to 2019.By the end of 2020,the annual average NO_(2)TVCD declines by only 3.4%in Chinamainland,much less than the reduction of 24.1%in the lockdown period.On the basis of quantitative analysis,we find the rebound of NO_(2)TVCD is mainly caused by the rapid recovery of economy especially in the fourth quarter,when contribution of industry and power plant on NO_(2)TVCD continues to rise.This revenge bounce of NO_(2)indicates the emission reduction of NOx in lockdown period is basically offset by the recovery of economy,revealing the fact that China’s economic development and NOx emissions are still not decoupled.More efforts are still required to stimulate low-pollution development.
