Fleeting and resilient environmental impacts of SARS-CoV-2
Abstract
Efforts to stop the spread of SARS-CoV-2 represent one of the largest and best observed abrupt changes to anthropogenic forcing of atmospheric composition and climate of the modern era. Multiple metrics show a 'pause' in human activity at an unprecedented scale. Participants engaged in the virtual workshop hosted by the Keck Institute for Space Studies identified a number of salient interactions between this abrupt change in human influence and the Earth System. Some of these interactions are likely to persist long after the pandemic wanes. We summarize the findings from the workshop and highlight the research efforts that developed out of the workshop to study how the dynamics of this unnatural experiment may inform efforts to mitigate some of the negative human impacts on the global environment
- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2020
- Bibcode:
- 2020AGUFMU003...08W
- Keywords:
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- 0365 Troposphere: composition and chemistry;
- ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE;
- 3359 Radiative processes;
- ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES;
- 0428 Carbon cycling;
- BIOGEOSCIENCES;
- 0240 Public health;
- GEOHEALTH