Tracking Daily Concentrations of PM2.5 Chemical Composition in China since 2000
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Abstract
PM2.5 chemical components play significant roles in the climate, air quality, and public health, and the roles vary due to their different physicochemical properties. Obtaining accurate and timely updated information on China's PM2.5 chemical composition is the basis for research and environmental management. Here, we developed a full-coverage near-real-time PM2.5 chemical composition data set at 10 km spatial resolution since 2000, combining the Weather Research and Forecasting-Community Multiscale Air Quality modeling system, ground observations, a machine learning algorithm, and multisource-fusion PM2.5 data. PM2.5 chemical components in our data set are in good agreement with the available observations (correlation coefficients range from 0.64 to 0.75 at a monthly scale from 2000 to 2020 and from 0.67 to 0.80 at a daily scale from 2013 to 2020; most normalized mean biases within ±20%). Our data set reveals the long-term trends in PM2.5 chemical composition in China, especially the rapid decreases after 2013 for sulfate, nitrate, ammonium, organic matter, and black carbon, at the rate of -9.0, -7.2, -8.1, -8.4, and -9.2% per year, respectively. The day-to-day variability is also well captured, including evolutions in spatial distribution and shares of PM2.5 components. As part of Tracking Air Pollution in China (http://tapdata.org.cn), this daily-updated data set provides large opportunities for health and climate research as well as policy-making in China.
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