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Emergency coronavirus mitigation measures have led to improved air quality in Europe. The European Space Agency (ESA) reports<\/a> that the concentration of nitrogen dioxide has dropped over European capitals and industrial zones. The substance is produced, for example, by cars, factories, or power plants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Satellite images from the Copernicus program, which monitors the environment, show a decrease in nitrogen dioxide concentration over Paris, Madrid, Barcelona, and in the north of Italy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Experts surveyed the state of air over Europe between 14 and 25 March, then compared the resulting data with the monthly average in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The concentration of nitrogen dioxide varies daily depending on the weather. Therefore, we cannot rely solely on data for a single day,” explains Henk Eskes of the Dutch meteorological office KNMI. “By combining data over time – in this case, ten days – the variability of meteorological phenomena averages, and we can see the impact of a change in human activity,” Eskes adds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Copernicus also monitors air status in other countries such as Britain and the Netherlands. In these Western European countries, however, data collection is complicated by the variability of the weather.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ESA has previously reported measurements over Italy, according to which the country’s nitrogen dioxide concentration decreased by 10 percent per week from mid-February to mid-March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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