Collection

Relationships between the initiation, spread, state, effects, or consequences of SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 and atmospheric science and technology

Submission status
Open
Open for submission from
01 February 2023
Submission deadline
Ongoing

The BAST Editorial Board invites papers that investigate relationships between the initiation, spread, state, effects, or consequences of SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 (COVID-19 hereafter for brevity) and atmospheric science and technology. Long-term exposure to coarse and fine particulate matter (PM10 and PM2.5) and nitrogen compounds has been recognized as an important risk factor for a variety of pulmonary pathologies and viral respiratory infections. Important links between atmospheric phenomena—from dispersion to chemical reactions to seasonal climatology—and COVID-19 have just started to emerge. The following topics are especially welcome:

• Impacts of COVID-19 on indoor and outdoor air quality at regional scale or larger, including country- or region-specific analyses

• Impacts of air quality on COVID-19, such as the effects associated with enhanced levels of PM2.5/PM10 particles

• Numerical simulations (e.g., predictions of the virus spread or air quality changes based on traffic patterns and stay-at-home orders)

This collection was curated by the Editor in Chief from articles that also appear in the journal's issues. The journal's standard peer review policy applies here. If an article was also included in a special issue of the journal, please see the instruction for authors for the special issue peer review policy.

Editors

  • Paolo Di Girolamo Paolo Di Girolamo

    Paolo Di Girolamo

    Paolo Di Girolamo is Associate Professor in Physics at the School of Engineering of the University of Basilicata,Italy. Areas of expertise are Atmospheric Physics, Meteorology, Boundary Layer Meteorology, Cloud Physics, Climatology, Climate Change, Water Vapour, Atmospheric Aerosols, Lidar, Active and passive Remote Sensing. His scientific research activity is primarily focused on the design, the experimental development and the operation of ground-based, air-borne and satellite-borne lidar systems for the study of atmospheric parameters of meteorological and climatic interest. Hirsch index: 40, total number of citations: 4671, i10-index: 79.

Articles (3 in this collection)