November 2020 - AQServe

New Study Co-authored by Prof. Jos Lelieveld Estimates Exposure to Air Pollution Increases COVID-19 Deaths by 15% Worldwide

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Study co-authored by the Institute Prof. Jos Lelieveld estimates 15% of COVID-19 deaths worldwide could be attributed to air pollution. Long-term exposure to air pollution has been linked to an increased risk of dying from COVID-19 and, for the first time, a study has estimated the proportion of deaths from the coronavirus that could be attributable to particulate matter air pollution for every country in the world. Professor Jos Lelieveld, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz and Professor at Climate and Atmosphere Research Center (CARE-C) of The Cyprus Institute, stated: “Since the numbers of deaths from COVID-19 are increasing all the time, it’s not possible to give final numbers of COVID-19 deaths per country that could be attributed to air pollution. However, as an example, in the UK there have been more than 44,000 coronavirus deaths and we estimate that the fraction attributable to air pollution is 14%, meaning that about 6,000 deaths could have been avoided...

1rst PRECEPT Project Press Release: The first, Novel and Cost-effective Particulate Matter Monitor, Made in Cyprus

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Under the framework of the PRECEPT project https://preceptproject.info , Additess LTD and the Cyprus Institute (CyI) have developed a portable, cost-effective and accurate monitor for measuring the number concentration and size of airborne particulate matter (PM). The PRECEPT PM monitor, is an autonomous instrument that can measure the size and number of all airborne PM from 0.3 to more comparable with other laboratory grade instruments at a fraction of their cost. The PRECEPT PM monitor comes equipped with a touch screen and a micro-computer, allowing for in-situ operation and real-time visualization of the measurements, without the need of an external computer. In addition, the PRECEPT PM monitor utilizes a compact but efficient flow system, which allows its connection to aerosol sampling and pre-treatment lines (common in atmospheric observational sites); something that distinguishes it from most of the other PM monitors that reside in the low-cost price range. The PRECEPT PM monitor is compact and equipped with a battery, thus it can...

Surface air temperature for November 2020

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Globally, November 2020 was the warmest November on record, by a clear margin. For Europe, the month was the joint second warmest on record. Temperatures were most above the 1981-2010 average over a large region covering much of northern Europe, Siberia and the Arctic Ocean, while temperatures were most below average over central Asia and West Antarctica. November 2020 was warmer than the 1981-2010 average for the month over almost all of Europe. Temperatures were considerably higher than average over the Alps and the north of the continent. Norway had its joint warmest November in a data series reaching back to 1900. Sweden and Finland also saw records broken. Conditions were close to or a little cooler than average only in parts of the south-east of the continent. Temperatures were exceptionally high for November over a large region covering much of Siberia, the Arctic Ocean and bordering coastal seas, extending into western and northern Alaska and the far north-west of Canada. Temperatures...