NASA Finds Local Lockdowns Brought Global Ozone Reductions
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As the coronavirus pandemic slowed global commerce to a crawl in early 2020, emissions of nitrogen oxides (NOx) – which create ozone, a danger to human health and to climate – decreased 15% globally with local reductions as high as 50%, according to a study led by scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. As a result of the lower NOx emissions, by June 2020 global ozone levels had dropped to a level that policymakers thought it would take at least 15 years to reach by conventional means, such as regulations.
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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
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Scientists
- Kazuyuki Miyazaki (JPL)
- Kevin Bowman (JPL)
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Producer
- Katie Jepson (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
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Writer
- Carol Rasmussen (NASA/JPL CalTech)
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Visualizer
- Trent L. Schindler (USRA)
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Associate producer
- Kathryn Mersmann (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
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Editor
- Katie Jepson (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
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This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:44 PM EDT.