PM 10 forecasting system has commenced to minimize public health damage (Chang et al., 2016). In October of the same year, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) designated PM as a group 1 carcinogen (IARC, 2016), resulting in widening public awareness about PM pollution across the country. As the annual PM level in Seoul, Korea has recently stagnated, the sudden surge in severe PM pollution events is recognized by the public as a severe environmental problem.PM variability is regulated by emission control policy, synoptic-scale weather, local meteorology, physical/ chemical processes, etc. In particular, meteorological variables can influence emission reduction policy by climatic variability (

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