Abstract
The London COVID-19 lockdown reduced emissions from anthropogenic sources, providing unique conditions for air contamination research. This research uses tropospheric ozone (O3), volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and NOx (NO+NO2) hourly monitoring data at the London Marylebone Road station from 2001 to 2020 to investigate the effects of lockdown on (O3) and its precursors. Both NOx and VOCs pollution showed a decreasing trend between 2001 and 2021, with a gradual increase in O3 in contrast. During the COVID-19 lockdown period (from 23rd March to July 4, 2020), there was a surge in O3 concentration, accompanied by a sharp reduction in NOx concentrations. Because all the monitoring VOCs/NOx results were less than eight during the lockdown, indicating that O3 formation in urban London was in the VOC-limited regime. The rapid increase in O3 concentrations caused by the lockdown was closely related to the rapid decrease in NOx emissions.
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