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Transportation CO$_2$ emissions stayed high despite recurrent COVID outbreaks

Physics and Society 2021-01-19 v1 Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics Geophysics

Abstract

After steep drops and then rebounds in transportation-related CO2_2 emissions over the first half of 2020, a second wave of COVID-19 this fall has caused further -- but less substantial -- emissions reductions. Here, we use near-real-time estimates of daily emissions to explore differences in human behavior and restriction policies over the course of 2020.

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@article{arxiv.2101.06450,
  title  = {Transportation CO$_2$ emissions stayed high despite recurrent COVID outbreaks},
  author = {Yilong Wang and Zhu Deng and Philippe Ciais and Zhu Liu and Steven J. Davis and Pierre Gentine and Thomas Lauvaux and Quansheng Ge},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.06450},
  year   = {2021}
}
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