主办单位:中国气象局沈阳大气环境研究所
国际刊号:ISSN 1673-503X
国内刊号:CN 21-1531/P

Journal of Meteorology and Environment ›› 2020, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (1): 21-27.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1673-503X.2020.01.003

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Relationship between atmospheric visibility and particulate matter concentration and meteorological parameters in Guilin urban area

Feng-xiang LONG(),Yu-lin ZHANG   

  1. Guilin Meteorological Service, Guilin 541001, China
  • Received:2018-11-28 Online:2020-02-28 Published:2019-12-12

Abstract:

The relationships between atmospheric visibility and particulate matter (PM) concentrations and meteorological parameters in the urban area of Guilin city were analyzed using the meteorological observation data (including visibility, wind speed, relative humanity, air temperature, air pressure, rainfall, etc) and particulate matter (PM10, PM2.5, and PM1.0) mass concentrations observed at the Guilin National Basic Meteorological Station from January 2015 to June 2017.The results indicated that there is a logarithmic function relationship between atmospheric visibility and PM10, PM2.5, and PM1.0, with the correlation coefficients of -0.341, -0.461 and -0.509, respectively.The effect of PM on visibility is most remarkable when relative humidity varied between 60% and 70%.Atmospheric visibility has the largest correlation with wind speed in a quadratic function relationship, followed by relative humidity in a power-law relationship.Visibility has a small correlation with air temperature, and a positive correlation with air pressure in autumn and winter, with a correlation coefficient of 0.301 in winter, but such correlation is poor in spring and summer.We establish eight non-linear statistical regression models to predict atmospheric visibility using different meteorological parameters and PM concentrations.The model shows the best performance to simulate the variation of visibility in different seasons when considering PM10, wind speed, relative humidity, and air temperature.

Key words: Atmospheric visibility, Particulate matter concentration, Meteorological parameter, Non-linear correlation, Regression model

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