Development of a recurrent spatiotemporal deep-learning method coupled with data fusion for correction of hourly ozone forecasts

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Ambient ozone (O3) predictions can be very challenging mainly due to the highly nonlinear photochemistry among its precursors, and meteorological conditions and regional transport can further complicate the O3 formation processes. The emission-based chemical transport models (CTM) are broadly used to predict O3 formation, but they may deviate from observations due to input uncertainties such as emissions and meteorological data, in addition to the treatment of O3 nonlinear chemistry. In this study, an innovative recurrent spatiotemporal deep-learning (RSDL) method with model-monitor coupled convolutional recurrent neural networks (ConvRNN) has been developed to improve O3 predictions of CTM. The RSDL method was first used to build the ConvRNN within a 24-h scale to characterize the spatiotemporal relationships between the monitored O3 data and CTM simulations, and then incorporated the recurrent pattern to achieve 72-h multi-site forecasts based on a pilot study over the Pearl River Delta (PRD) region of China. The results showed that the RSDL method predicted O3 with high accuracy over this case study, with an increase of 27.54% in the correlation coefficient (R) average for all sites as well as an increase in R of 0.14-0.21 for all cities compared to CTM. Moreover, the regional distribution of CTM was further improved by the RSDL predictions with the data fusion technique, which greatly reduced the underpredictions of O3 concentrations, particularly in high O3-level areas (concentrations >160 μg/m3), with a 33.55% reduction in the mean absolute error (MAE).

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:335

Enthalten in:

Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987) - 335(2023) vom: 15. Okt., Seite 122291

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Li, Jie [VerfasserIn]
Jang, Ji-Cheng [VerfasserIn]
Zhu, Yun [VerfasserIn]
Lin, Che-Jen [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Shuxiao [VerfasserIn]
Xing, Jia [VerfasserIn]
Dong, Xinyi [VerfasserIn]
Li, Jinying [VerfasserIn]
Zhao, Bin [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Bingyao [VerfasserIn]
Yuan, Yingzhi [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

66H7ZZK23N
Air Pollutants
Air quality modeling
Data fusion
Deep learning
Journal Article
Ozone
Ozone photochemistry
Ozone predictions

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Date Completed 18.09.2023

Date Revised 18.09.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.envpol.2023.122291

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM360275338