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This study introduces a new method-fusion temporal adjustment to improve air pollution estimates from incomplete mobile monitoring data. This technique enhances accuracy by using log transformations and long-term medians for reliable long-term air quality predictions.

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  • Environmental Science
  • Atmospheric Chemistry
  • Data Science

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  • Mobile air pollution monitoring provides diverse spatial and temporal data.
  • Incomplete time-series data necessitates temporal adjustments for accurate long-term predictions.
  • Existing methods struggle with data gaps and outlier effects.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce and validate a novel method-fusion temporal adjustment technique.
  • To improve the accuracy of long-term air pollution concentration estimates from incomplete datasets.
  • To address challenges posed by data gaps and outliers in mobile monitoring.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized a log transformation to normalize air pollution sample distributions.
  • Incorporated the long-term median of a reference monitor to mitigate outlier-induced inflation.
  • Applied the method-fusion approach to hourly Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2) data from Paris, 2016.

Main Results:

  • The method-fusion approach demonstrated improved accuracy in long-term air pollution estimates.
  • Log transformations effectively controlled for estimate inflation in log-normally distributed data.
  • Using the long-term median proved more robust against outliers than the mean.

Conclusions:

  • The method-fusion temporal adjustment offers a more accurate method for estimating long-term air pollution.
  • This technique is effective regardless of the specific pollutant or data distribution.
  • Enhances the utility of mobile air quality monitoring data for predictive modeling.