Research on PM2.5 Pollution Prediction Method in Hefei City Based on CNN-LSTM Hybrid Model

Abstract

The air quality data has the characteristics of large scale and high time sequence. In the deep learning model, CNN has good feature extraction and expression ability through convolution operation. LSTM has strong time series data processing ability, which effectively solves the long-term dependence problem in the time series data that CNN cannot process. However, a single feature extraction or time series processing method will affect the accuracy of the model. This paper proposes a PM2.5 pollution prediction method based on the CNN-LSTM hybrid model, which can fuse the time series and nonlinear features of the data. By selecting the air quality and meteorological data of Hefei City in Anhui Province from 2018 to 2021 for prediction research, the experimental results show that the CNN-LSTM hybrid model is better than the LSTM model in terms of RMSE, MAE, and R2 evaluation indexes, which reflects higher prediction accuracy. It can not only be used for real-time prediction of PM2.5 pollution, but also for the prediction of other pollutants in the atmosphere. It also provides a reference for the application of CNN-LSTM model in solving other time series big data.