Ground air pollutants explanation based on multiple visibility graph of complex network by temporal community division.

Abstract

In air pollution studies, the correlation analysis of environmental variables has usually been challenged by parametric diversity. Such variable variations are not only from the extrinsic meteorological conditions and industrial activities but also from the interactive influences between the multiple parameters. A promising solution has been motivated by the recent development of visibility graph (VG) on multi-variable data analysis, especially for the characterization of pollutants' correlation in the temporal domain, the multiple visibility graph (MVG) for nonlinear multivariate time series analysis has been verified effectively in different realistic scenarios. To comprehensively study the correlation between pollutant data and season, in this work, we propose a multi-layer complex network with a community division strategy based on the joint analysis of the atmospheric pollutants. Compared to the single-layer-based complex networks, our proposed method can integrate multiple different atmospheric pollutants for analysis, and combine them with multivariate time series data to obtain higher temporary community division for ground air pollutants interpretation. Substantial experiments have shown that this method effectively utilizes air pollution data from multiple representative indicators. By mining community information in the data, it successfully achieves reasonable and strong interpretive analysis of air pollution data.