Metadata record for the article: A take-home message from COVID-19 on urban air pollution reduction through mobility limitations and teleworking
Creators: name: Badia, Alba
name: Langemeyer, Johannes
name: Codina, Xavier
name: Gilabert, Joan
name: Guilera, Nacho
name: Vidal, Veronica
name: Segura, Ricard
name: Vives, Mar
name: Villalba, Gara
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 39901 Environmental Chemistry (incl. Atmospheric Chemistry)
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Environmental Chemistry
subject: Environmental Science

description: <b>Summary</b><br> This metadata record provides details of the data supporting the claims of the related article: “A take-home message from COVID-19 on urban air pollution reduction through mobility limitations and teleworking”. The related study treated the teleworking and resulting reduction in air pollution that have occurred during COVID-19 as a large-scale pilot test to determine the potential of improving urban air quality through teleworking. Type of data: air pollution levels Subject of data: simulations based on socio-occupational scenarios, with various configurations of teleworking, using the chemistry transport model WRF-Chem with multi-layer urban scheme Date of data collection: spring 2020 (COVID-19 strict confinement period) Geographic location: Metropolitan Area of Barcelona (AMB), Spain <b>Data access</b> The data from Xarxa de Vigilància i Previsió de la Contaminació Atmosfèrica (XVPCA), underlying Figs 1-2 and Supplementary Figs 1-2, are openly available from Departament d'Acció Climàtica, Alimentació i Agenda Rural: http://mediambient.gencat.cat/ca/05_ambits_dactuacio/atmosfera/qualitat_de_laire/vols-saber-que-respires/descarrega-de-dades/descarrega-dades-automatiques/ (last access 6 June 2021). The CAMS emission data are available from Emissions of atmospheric Compounds and Compilation of Ancillary Data (ECCAD) at https://doi.org/10.24380/m89g-j508. The FNL-NCEP global model data are available from the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Research Data Archive at https://doi.org/10.5065/978H-D239. The MOZART-4 global data are hosted by the NCAR and are available upon request via the form at https://www.acom.ucar.edu/wrf-chem/mozart.shtml (last access: 5 March 2020). The WRF-Chem simulation outputs, underlying Fig 4-5 and Supplementary Fig 1-8, are openly available via the <i>Zenodo </i>repository at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4767308. The WMS maps underlying Fig 1 are available in GIS format via the Cartographic and Geological Institute of Catalonia at: https://www.icgc.cat/ca/Administracio-i-empresa/Serveis/Geoinformacio-en-linia-Geoserveis/WMS-i-tessel-les-Cartografia-de-referencia/WMS-Mapes-i-ortofotos-vigents. The Butlletí climàtic mensual, supporting supplementary tables 1 and 2, is openly available from meteo.cat | Servei Meteorològic de Catalunya: https://www.meteo.cat/wpweb/climatologia/el-clima-ara/butlleti-mensual/. The April 2019 and April 2020 versions were used in the related study. <b>Corresponding author(s) for this study</b> Gara Villalba, Sostenipra Research Group, Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain. gara.villalba@uab.cat