Temporal and spatial impact of lockdown during COVID-19 on air quality index in Haryana, India

Manjeet; Anurag Airon; Rahul Kumar; Ruksar Saifi

doi:10.1038/s41598-022-20885-2

Temporal and spatial impact of lockdown during COVID-19 on air quality index in Haryana, India

Sci Rep. 2022 Nov 21;12(1):20046. doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-20885-2.

Authors

Manjeet¹, Anurag Airon¹, Rahul Kumar², Ruksar Saifi³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Agricultural Meteorology, Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, Haryana, 125004, India.
² Department of Zoology and Aquaculture, Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, Haryana, 125004, India. rahulrohila01@gmail.com.
³ Department of Zoology and Aquaculture, Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, Haryana, 125004, India.

Abstract

This paper presents the evaluation of air quality in different districts of Haryana. Geo-spatial techniques were used to estimate gaseous and particulate pollutant's spatial and temporal variation during complete nationwide lockdown period and same month of previous year 2019 (March to May). Data of six fixed pollutants were collected from Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB). In this context, the data of air pollutants (PM₁₀, PM_2.5, O₃, NOx, SO₂, and CO) were analyzed for 2019 and 2020. The Spatio-temporal distribution of the Air Quality Index (AQI) clearly depicts difference in lockdown and unlock period. The result was showed that the air quality was very poor to satisfactory in 2019 and an improvement was observed from satisfactory to good in 2020 due to COVID-19 lockdown. On the basis of result, it will be concluded that automobile and industry are the major contributor in increase the pollutant concentration.

MeSH terms

Air Pollutants* / analysis
Air Pollution* / analysis
COVID-19* / epidemiology
COVID-19* / prevention & control
Communicable Disease Control
Environmental Monitoring / methods
Humans

Substances

Air Pollutants