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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Feb 22.
Published in final edited form as: Atmos Chem Phys. 2022 Feb 22;22(4):2399–2417. doi: 10.5194/acp-22-2399-2022

Table 1.

Pandora sites (including names of local principal investigator (PI)), and mean, standard deviation (SD), and maximum (max) total column NO2 (TCNO2) amounts (based on half-hour averages) measured before (pre-) and after (post-) the COVID-19 lockdown in New York.

TCNO2 (in DU)

Apr–May Jun–Aug Sept–Nov Dec–Feb

Pandora name, #, location (principal investigator) Temporal range of data (mm/yyyy) Pre- Post- Pre- Post- Pre- Post- Pre- Post-
Manhattan, NY 12/2017–05/2021 mean 0.61 0.39 0.59 0.44 0.59 0.46 0.71 0.48
PSI#135 SD 0.34 0.25 0.35 0.24 0.38 0.27 0.45 0.30
40.8153°, −73.9505° max 3.11 3.25 3.77 2.09 2.94 1.89 3.13 2.05

(Maria Tzortziou) change −36 % −25 % −22 % −32 %

Queens, NY 05/2018–05/2021 mean 0.61 0.48 0.54 0.51 0.57 0.51 0.73 0.70
PSI #140, #55 SD 0.35 0.21 0.28 0.19 0.33 0.22 0.40 0.38
40.7361°, −73.8215° max 3.42 3.60 2.74 1.54 3.36 2.34 3.04 2.81

(James J. Szykman) change −21 % −6 % −11 % −4 %

New Brunswick, NJ* 05/2018–01/2021 mean 0.32 0.26 0.29 0.28 0.34 0.30 0.42 0.26
PSI #56, #69 SD 0.15 0.18 0.15 0.20 0.24 0.21 0.31 0.10
40.4622°, −74.4294° max 1.46 2.06 1.98 2.42 2.55 4.59 2.72 0.53

(James J. Szykman) change −19 % −3 % −12 % −38 %

New Haven, CT 05/2018–05/2021 mean 0.38 0.27 0.34 0.29 0.34 0.29 0.36 0.33
PSI #20, #64 SD 0.11 0.08 0.09 0.08 0.15 0.13 0.17 0.18
41.3014°, −72.9029° max 0.75 0.78 0.77 0.83 1.71 1.13 1.37 1.83

(James J. Szykman) change −29 % −15 % −15 % −8 %

The December–February period for New Brunswick contains 16 d of data in December 2020, 1 d of data in January 2021, and no data in February 2021.