{"id":1374,"date":"2021-09-06T17:01:52","date_gmt":"2021-09-06T15:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/urbag.eu\/?p=1374"},"modified":"2021-09-06T17:01:52","modified_gmt":"2021-09-06T15:01:52","slug":"publication-in-urban-sustainability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/atmosphere\/2021\/09\/06\/publication-in-urban-sustainability\/","title":{"rendered":"Publication in Urban Sustainability"},"content":{"rendered":"

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See full article\/ Veure l’article complet: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s42949-021-00037-7<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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The rigorous traffic limitations during COVID-19 have forced many people to work from home, reaching an outstanding degree of teleworking and reduction in air pollution. This exceptional situation can be examined as a large-scale pilot test to determine the potential of improving urban air quality through teleworking. Based on observed traffic reductions during the COVID-19 lockdown in Barcelona, we formulate socio-occupational scenarios, with various configurations of teleworking, and simulate them using the chemistry transport model WRF-Chem with multi-layer urban scheme. By intensifying teleworking to 2, 3, and 4 days a week, averaged NO2<\/sub>\u00a0concentrations are reduced by 4% (\u22121.5\u2009\u03bcg\u2009m\u22123<\/sup>), 8% (\u22123\u2009\u03bcg\u2009m\u22123<\/sup>), and 10% (\u22126\u2009\u03bcg\u2009m\u22123<\/sup>), respectively, while O3<\/sub>\u00a0increases moderately (up to 3\u2009\u03bcg\u2009m\u22123<\/sup>). We propose that teleworking be prioritized and promoted as an effective contribution towards reduction of long-term urban air pollution and short-term pollution peaks.<\/p>\n

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Les rigoroses limitacions de tr\u00e0nsit durant la COVID-19 han obligat a moltes persones a treballar des de casa, aconseguint un elevat nombre de teletreball i en conseq\u00fc\u00e8ncia una reducci\u00f3 de la contaminaci\u00f3 de l’aire. Aquesta situaci\u00f3 excepcional es pot estudiar com una prova pilot a gran escala per determinar el potencial de millora de la qualitat de l’aire urb\u00e0 a trav\u00e9s del teletreball. A partir de la reducci\u00f3 de tr\u00e0nsit observada durant el confinament per la COVID-19 a Barcelona, hem format escenaris sociolaborals, amb diverses configuracions de teletreball, i els hem simulat utilitzant el model de transport qu\u00edmic WRF-Chem amb esquema urb\u00e0 multicapa. En intensificar el teletreball a 2, 3 i 4 dies a la setmana, les concentracions mitjanes de NO2 es redueixen en un 4% (\u22121,5 \u03bcg m\u22123), un 8% (\u22123 \u03bcg m\u22123), i un 10% (\u22126 \u03bcg m\u22123), respectivament, mentre que O3 augmenta moderadament (fins a 3 \u03bcg m\u22123). Proposem que es prioritzi i promogui el teletreball com una contribuci\u00f3 efectiva a la reducci\u00f3 de la contaminaci\u00f3 de l’aire urb\u00e0 a llarg termini i als pics de contaminaci\u00f3 a curt termini.<\/p>\n

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Title: A take-home message from COVID-19 on urban air pollution reduction through mobility limitations and teleworking \/ <\/p>\n

The rigorous traffic limitations during COVID-19 have forced many people to work from home, reaching an outstanding degree of teleworking and reduction in air pollution<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3153,"featured_media":1393,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[32,16,76,77,78,66,79,10,69],"class_list":["post-1374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-agriculture","tag-barcelona","tag-greenhouse","tag-icta","tag-resources","tag-rooftop","tag-tomato","tag-urbag","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/atmosphere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/atmosphere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/atmosphere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/atmosphere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/atmosphere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/atmosphere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/atmosphere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/atmosphere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/atmosphere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/atmosphere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}