A Haze Prediction Method Based on One-Dimensional Convolutional Neural Network

Abstract

In recent years, more and more people are paying close attention to the environmental problems in metropolitan areas and their harm to the human body. Among them, haze is the pollutant that people are most concerned about. The demand for a method to predict the haze level for the public and academics keeps rising. In order to predict the haze concentration on a time scale in hours, this study built a haze concentration prediction method based on one-dimensional convolutional neural networks. The gated recurrent unit method was used for comparison, which highlights the training speed of a one-dimensional convolutional neural network. In summary, the haze concentration data of the past 24 h are used as input and the haze concentration level on the next moment as output such that the haze concentration level on the time scale in hours can be predicted. Based on the results, the prediction accuracy of the proposed method is over 95% and can be used to support other studies on haze prediction.