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ArticleThe Science of the total environment2021

Impact of COVID-19 lockdown upon the air quality and surface urban heat island intensity over the United Arab Emirates.

Abduldaem S Alqasemi, Mohamed E Hereher, Gordana Kaplan, Ayad M Fadhil Al-Quraishi, Hakim Saibi

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Article in The Science of the total environment, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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15 citing papers in PubMed.

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  8. Examining the temporal and spatial distribution of potential urban heat island formations.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2022
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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors.

Abduldaem S AlqasemiGeography and Urban Sustainability, College of Humanities & Social Science, UAEU, Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates. Electronic address: a.alqasemi@uaeu.ac.ae.
Mohamed E HereherGeography Department, College of Arts and Social Sciences, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman; Environmental Sciences Dept., Faculty of Science, Damietta University, New Damietta, Egypt.
Gordana KaplanInstitute of Earth and Space Sciences, Eskisehir Technical University, Eskisehir, Turkey.
Ayad M Fadhil Al-QuraishiSurveying and Geomatics Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Tishk International University, Erbil, Kurdistan Region, Iraq.
Hakim SaibiGeology Department, College of Science, United Arab Emirates University, Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The 2019 pandemic of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-Corona Virus Diseases (COVID-19) has posed a substantial threat to public health and major global economic losses. The Northern Emirates of the United Arab Emirates (NEUAE) had imposed intense preventive lockdown measures. On the first of April 2020, a lockdown was implemented. It was assumed, due to lower emissions, that the air quality and Surface Urban Heat Island Intensity (SUHII) had been strengthened significantly. In this research, three parameters for Nitrogen Dioxide (NO

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Air PollutantsAir PollutionCOVID-19AnimalsCitiesCommunicable Disease ControlEnvironmental MonitoringHot TemperatureHumansIslandsSARS-CoV-2United Arab EmiratesAir PollutantsAODCOVID-19LockdownNO(2)Northern emiratesSUHII

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