Understanding meteorological impacts on ambient PM2.5 concentrations using random forest models in Beijing
| dc.contributor.author | Brehmer, Collin, author | |
| dc.contributor.author | Carter, Ellison, advisor | |
| dc.contributor.author | Bond, Tami, committee member | |
| dc.contributor.author | Carlson, Kenneth, committee member | |
| dc.contributor.author | Pierce, Jeffrey, committee member | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-01-21T01:23:56Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-01-21T01:23:56Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2022 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Policymakers and non-governmental organizations have been implementing policies and interventions designed to reduce exposure to hazardous air pollution. Having knowledge of how non-policy related factors (i.e., meteorology) impact air pollution concentrations in a given study area can better inform longitudinal studies of the effects of the policy on air pollution and health. In this study, we apply a random forest machine learning approach to evaluate how meteorological factors including temperature, relative humidity, wind speed, wind direction, and boundary layer height influence daily PM2.5 concentrations in rural Beijing villages during heating months (January and February of 2019 and 2020). Ten-fold cross validation indicated good model performance with an overall r2 of 0.85 for season 1, and 0.93 for season 2. The models were able to identify variables that were the most important for predicting PM2.5 concentrations both field seasons (relative humidity) and variables that had changes in relative importance between seasons (temperature and boundary layer height). Additionally, examination of one and two-way partial dependence plots as well as interactions through Friedman's H-statistic granted insight into how meteorology variables influence PM2.5 concentrations. Findings from this work provide a basis for adjusting for meteorological variability in important indicators of air quality like PM2.5 concentrations in an ongoing real-world policy evaluation of a province-wide ban on household use of coal for space heating in Beijing, which is critical for isolating (to the extent possible) changes in measured pollutant concentrations attributable to the policy. | |
| dc.format.medium | born digital | |
| dc.format.medium | masters theses | |
| dc.identifier | Brehmer_colostate_0053N_17438.pdf | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10217/235925 | |
| dc.language | English | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.publisher | Colorado State University. Libraries | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | 2020- | |
| dc.rights | Copyright and other restrictions may apply. User is responsible for compliance with all applicable laws. For information about copyright law, please see https://libguides.colostate.edu/copyright. | |
| dc.subject | machine learning | |
| dc.subject | air pollution | |
| dc.subject | PM2.5 | |
| dc.title | Understanding meteorological impacts on ambient PM2.5 concentrations using random forest models in Beijing | |
| dc.type | Text | |
| dc.type | Image | |
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| thesis.degree.discipline | Civil and Environmental Engineering | |
| thesis.degree.grantor | Colorado State University | |
| thesis.degree.level | Masters | |
| thesis.degree.name | Master of Science (M.S.) |
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