Journal
POLISH JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
Volume 25, Issue 3, Pages 1015-1026Publisher
HARD
DOI: 10.15244/pjoes/61261
Keywords
air pollution; canyon indicators; aerosol optical depth (AOD); land use regression (LUR)
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [41171155, 41371198]
- 123 Project of the China Environment Protect Foundation [CEPF2013-123-1-8]
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Land use regression (LUR) modeling is a promising method for assessing the spatial variation of air pollutant concentrations. We developed an LUR model for air pollutants (SO2, NO2, and PM 10) in the central cities of Liaoning Province using monitoring data collected during 2013. We evaluated whether the addition of annual satellite aerosol optical depth (AOD) observations and five canyon indicators (building height, building coverage ratio, floor area ratio, building shape coefficient, and high-rise building ratio) improved the LUR models. Out-of-sample 10-fold cross validation was used to quantify the accuracy of the model predictions. Our results showed that the gross domestic product (GDP) and the distance to the nearest industrial emissions were the common variables for the models. Annual AOD demonstrated weak correlations with air pollutant concentrations because of its instantaneity, low resolution, and limited precision; however, it was useful for improving the coefficient of determination (R-2) of the LUR models. The full models incorporating the annual AOD data and canyon indicators showed further improvement. The improvements of R-2 were 0.22, 0.19, and 0.39 for SO2, NO2, and PM 10, respectively, demonstrating that the consideration of canyon indicators could still be valuable and could be used in LUR models.
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