Open AccessCleaner Pandemic Air Led to Reduced Lightning Strikes Worldwide
Author(s) -
Krystal Vasquez
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
eos
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1029/2022eo220048
Subject(s) - pandemic , lightning (connector) , covid-19 , lightning strike , meteorology , aeronautics , geography , forensic engineering , environmental science , engineering , virology , medicine , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty) , thunderstorm , power (physics) , physics , disease , pathology , quantum mechanics
As people stayed home during the COVID-19 lockdowns, air quality improved. But the improvement was accompanied by an unusual meteorological side effect: a decrease in lightning.