Anomalous atmospheric circulation favored the spread of COVID-19 in Europe
The current pandemic caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 is having negative health, social and economic consequences worldwide. In Europe, the pandemic started to develop strongly at the end of February and beginning of March 2020. It has subsequently spread over the continent, with special virulen...
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ftdatacite:10.48550/arxiv.2004.12503 2023-05-15T15:05:36+02:00 Anomalous atmospheric circulation favored the spread of COVID-19 in Europe Sanchez-Lorenzo, Arturo Vaquero-Martínez, Javier Calbó, Josep Wild, Martin Santurtún, Ana Lopez-Bustins, Joan-A. Vaquero, Jose-M. Folini, Doris Antón, Manuel 2020 https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2004.12503 https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.12503 unknown arXiv arXiv.org perpetual, non-exclusive license http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/ Populations and Evolution q-bio.PE Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics physics.ao-ph FOS Biological sciences FOS Physical sciences Article CreativeWork article Preprint 2020 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2004.12503 2022-03-10T15:48:21Z The current pandemic caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 is having negative health, social and economic consequences worldwide. In Europe, the pandemic started to develop strongly at the end of February and beginning of March 2020. It has subsequently spread over the continent, with special virulence in northern Italy and inland Spain. In this study we show that an unusual persistent anticyclonic situation prevailing in southwestern Europe during February 2020 (i.e. anomalously strong positive phase of the North Atlantic and Arctic Oscillations) could have resulted in favorable conditions, in terms of air temperature and humidity, in Italy and Spain for a quicker spread of the virus compared with the rest of the European countries. It seems plausible that the strong atmospheric stability and associated dry conditions that dominated in these regions may have favored the virus's propagation, by short-range droplet transmission as well as likely by long-range aerosol (airborne) transmission. : 22 pages, 4 figures, Supplementary Information with 8 figures Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic North Atlantic DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Arctic |
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Populations and Evolution q-bio.PE Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics physics.ao-ph FOS Biological sciences FOS Physical sciences Sanchez-Lorenzo, Arturo Vaquero-Martínez, Javier Calbó, Josep Wild, Martin Santurtún, Ana Lopez-Bustins, Joan-A. Vaquero, Jose-M. Folini, Doris Antón, Manuel Anomalous atmospheric circulation favored the spread of COVID-19 in Europe |
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The current pandemic caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 is having negative health, social and economic consequences worldwide. In Europe, the pandemic started to develop strongly at the end of February and beginning of March 2020. It has subsequently spread over the continent, with special virulence in northern Italy and inland Spain. In this study we show that an unusual persistent anticyclonic situation prevailing in southwestern Europe during February 2020 (i.e. anomalously strong positive phase of the North Atlantic and Arctic Oscillations) could have resulted in favorable conditions, in terms of air temperature and humidity, in Italy and Spain for a quicker spread of the virus compared with the rest of the European countries. It seems plausible that the strong atmospheric stability and associated dry conditions that dominated in these regions may have favored the virus's propagation, by short-range droplet transmission as well as likely by long-range aerosol (airborne) transmission. : 22 pages, 4 figures, Supplementary Information with 8 figures |
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Sanchez-Lorenzo, Arturo Vaquero-Martínez, Javier Calbó, Josep Wild, Martin Santurtún, Ana Lopez-Bustins, Joan-A. Vaquero, Jose-M. Folini, Doris Antón, Manuel |
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Sanchez-Lorenzo, Arturo Vaquero-Martínez, Javier Calbó, Josep Wild, Martin Santurtún, Ana Lopez-Bustins, Joan-A. Vaquero, Jose-M. Folini, Doris Antón, Manuel |
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Anomalous atmospheric circulation favored the spread of COVID-19 in Europe |
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Anomalous atmospheric circulation favored the spread of COVID-19 in Europe |
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Anomalous atmospheric circulation favored the spread of COVID-19 in Europe |
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Anomalous atmospheric circulation favored the spread of COVID-19 in Europe |
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Anomalous atmospheric circulation favored the spread of COVID-19 in Europe |
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anomalous atmospheric circulation favored the spread of covid-19 in europe |
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