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ArticlePloS one2018

Prediction of daily PM2.5 concentration in China using partial differential equations.

Yufang Wang, Haiyan Wang, Shuhua Chang, Adrian Avram

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Yufang WangDepartment of Statistics, Tianjin University of Finance and Economics, Tianjin, China.
Haiyan WangSchool of Mathematical and Natural Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, United States of America.
Shuhua ChangCoordinated Innovation Center for Computable Modeling in Management Science, Tianjin University of Finance and Economics, Tianjin, China.ORCID 0000-0003-1572-0804
Adrian AvramSchool of Mathematical and Natural Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, United States of America.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Accurate reporting and forecasting of PM2.5 concentration are important for improving public health. In this paper, we propose a partial differential equation (PDE) model, specially, a linear diffusive equation, to describe the spatial-temporal characteristics of PM2.5 in order to make short-term prediction. We analyze the temporal and spatial patterns of a real dataset from China's National Environmental Monitoring and validate the PDE-based model in terms of predicting the PM2.5 concentration of the next day by the former days' history data. Our experiment results show that the PDE model is able to characterize and predict the process of PM2.5 transport. For example, for 300 continuous days of 2016, the average prediction accuracy of the PDE model over all city-regions is 93% or 83% based on different accuracy definitions. To our knowledge, this is the first attempt to use PDE-based model to study PM2.5 prediction in both temporal and spatial dimensions.

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Environmental MonitoringAir PollutantsAir PollutionChinaCitiesForecastingHumansParticle SizeParticulate MatterSocial NetworkingAir PollutantsParticulate Matter

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PMID29874245
PMCPMC5991382

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