# American Institue of Mathematical Sciences

2016, 1(2/3 ): 171-183. doi: 10.3934/bdia.2016003

## Time series based urban air quality predication

 1 National University of Defense Technology, 109, Deya Road, Changsha, Hunan, China, China, China, China, China

Received  May 2016 Revised  June 2016 Published  September 2016

Urban air pollution post a great threat to human health, and has been a major concern of many metropolises in developing countries. Lately, a few air quality monitoring stations have been established to inform public the real-time air quality indices based on fine particle matters, e.g. $PM_{2.5}$, in countries suffering from air pollutions. Air quality, unfortunately, is fairly difficult to manage due to multiple complex human activities from driving to smelting. We observe that human activities' hidden regular pattern offers possibility in predication, and this motivates us to infer urban air condition from the perspective of time series. In this paper, we focus on $PM_{2.5}$ based urban air quality, and introduce two kinds of time-series methods for real-time and fine-grained air quality prediction, harnessing historical air quality data reported by existing monitoring stations. The methods are evaluated based in the real-life $PM_{2.5}$ concentration data in the year of 2013 (January - December) in Wuhan, China.
Citation: Ruiqi Li, Yifan Chen, Xiang Zhao, Yanli Hu, Weidong Xiao. Time series based urban air quality predication. Big Data & Information Analytics, 2016, 1 (2/3 ) : 171-183. doi: 10.3934/bdia.2016003
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