Simulation of the Spatiotemporal Distribution of PM2.5 Concentration Based on GTWR-XGBoost Two-Stage Model: A Case Study of Chengdu Chongqing Economic Circle

Abstract

Natural environmental factors and human activity intensity factors, the two main factors that affect the spatial and temporal distribution of PM2.5 concentration near the surface, have different mechanisms of action on PM2.5 concentration. In this paper, a GTWR-XGBoost two-stage sequential hybrid model is proposed aiming at detecting the expression of spatiotemporal heterogeneity in the traditional machine learning retrieval model of PM2.5 concentration and the difficulty of expressing the complex nonlinear relationship in the statistical regression model. In the first stage, the natural environmental factors are used to predict PM2.5 concentration with spatiotemporal characteristics by collinearity diagnosis method and Geographically and Temporally Weighted Regression method (GTWR). In the second stage, the simulation results in the first stage and the natural factors eliminated through LUR stepwise regression in the first stage are into the XGBoost model together with the human activity intensity factors in the buffer zone with the best correlation coefficient of PM2.5, and finally the temporal and spatial distribution of PM2.5 concentration. Taking the Chengdu Chongqing Economic Circle as an example, the proposed model is used to retrieve PM2.5 concentration and compared with the single GTWR, XGBoost, and coupling model published recently. The experimental results show that the R2, RMSE, and MAE of the GTWR-XGBoost two-stage model cross-validation are 0.92, 5.44 ug·m−3, and 4.12 ug·m−3, respectively. Compared with the above single models, R2 increased by 0.01 and 0.12, and MAE decreased by more than 0.11 and 3.1, respectively. Compared with the coupling model published recently, R2 is increased by 0.02, and MAE is reduced by more than 0.4. In addition, the PM2.5 concentration in Chengdu Chongqing showed obvious seasonal temporal and spatial changes, and the influence ratios of natural environmental factors and human activity intensity activities factors on PM2.5 were 0.66 and 0.34. The results show that the GTWR-XGBoost two-stage Model can not only describe the heterogeneity and objectively reflect the complex nonlinear relationship between the phenomenon and the influencing factors, but also enhance the interpretability of the phenomenon when simulating the spatiotemporal distribution characteristics of PM2.5 concentration.

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