Abstract
Air pollution is one of the severe environmental issues in Chongqing. Many measures made by the government for improving air quality have been put into use these past few years, while the influence of these measures remains unknown. This study analyzed the changes in the air quality of the urban area of Chongqing between 2015 and 2021 using a complete in situ observation dataset that all missing data were filled by the interpolation of a low-rank tensor completion model with truncate nuclear norm minimization (LRTC-TNN). The results include: (1) the LRTC-TNN model robustly performs to reconstruct missing data of pollutant concentrations with an R2 of 0.93 and an RMSE of 7.78; (2) the air quality index (AQI) decreases by 15.96%, and the total polluted days decrease by 21.05% from 2015 to 2021, showing an obvious promotion in air quality; and (3) the changing air quality is attributed to decreasing concentrations of PM2.5 (34.10%), PM10 (25.03%), and NO2 (5.53%) from 2015 to 2021, whereas an increasing concentration of O3 (10.49%) is observed. The processing method for missing data, intact AQI datasets, and analysis of changes are beneficial to policy-making for environmental improvement and fill the gap in the field of data interpolation for air quality datasets in mountainous areas.
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