Pandemic’s Cleaner Air Could Reshape What We Know About the Atmosphere

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“This is a giant, global environmental experiment that has been done in a very controlled way,” said Sally Ng, an atmospheric scientist and chemical engineer at Georgia Tech, who, in the first days after the shutdown, briefly returned to her lab in downtown Atlanta to install an atmospheric monitor on the roof. “We suddenly turned the knob off, very drastically, and now we’re very slowly turning it back on.”

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College of Sciences

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Institute and Campus, Economic Development and Policy, Institute Leadership, Student and Faculty, City Planning, Transportation, and Urban Growth, Environment
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air quality, atmosphere, environmental experiment, pollution, covid-19, global emissions, climate change, carbon dioxide levels
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  • Created On: Jul 2, 2020 - 10:43am
  • Last Updated: Jul 2, 2020 - 10:43am