Examining the Impacts of Land Use on Air Quality from a Spatio-Temporal Perspective in Wuhan, China
Air pollution is one of the key environmental problems associated with urbanization and land use. Taking Wuhan city, Central China, as a case example, we explore the quantitative relationship between land use (built-up land, water bodies, and vegetation) and air quality (SO2, NO2, and PM10) based on...
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| description | Air pollution is one of the key environmental problems associated with urbanization and land use. Taking Wuhan city, Central China, as a case example, we explore the quantitative relationship between land use (built-up land, water bodies, and vegetation) and air quality (SO2, NO2, and PM10) based on nine ground-level monitoring sites from a long-term spatio-temporal perspective in 2007–2014. Five buffers with radiuses from 0.5 to 4 km are created at each site in geographical information system (GIS) and areas of land use categories within different buffers at each site are calculated. Socio-economic development, energy use, traffic emission, industrial emission, and meteorological condition are taken into consideration to control the influences of those factors on air quality. Results of bivariate correlation analysis between land use variables and annual average concentrations of air pollutants indicate that land use categories have discriminatory effects on different air pollutants, whether for the direction of correlation, the magnitude of correlation or the spatial scale effect of correlation. Stepwise linear regressions are used to quantitatively model their relationships and the results reveal that land use significantly influence air quality. Built-up land with one standard deviation growth will cause 2% increases in NO2 concentration while vegetation will cause 5% decreases. The increases of water bodies with one standard deviation are associated with 3%–6% decreases of SO2 or PM10 concentration, which is comparable to the mitigation effect of meteorology factor such as precipitation. Land use strategies should be paid much more attention while making air pollution reduction policies. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ce2a02ee91bd45d1aff4410201b8d0f22022-12-22T01:51:44ZengMDPI AGAtmosphere2073-44332016-04-01756210.3390/atmos7050062atmos7050062Examining the Impacts of Land Use on Air Quality from a Spatio-Temporal Perspective in Wuhan, ChinaGang Xu0Limin Jiao1Suli Zhao2Man Yuan3Xiaoming Li4Yuyao Han5Boen Zhang6Ting Dong7School of Resource and Environmental Science, Wuhan University, 129 Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430079, ChinaSchool of Resource and Environmental Science, Wuhan University, 129 Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430079, ChinaSchool of Resource and Environmental Science, Wuhan University, 129 Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430079, ChinaSchool of Resources and Environmental Science, Hubei University, 368 Youyi Road, Wuhan 430062, ChinaShenzhen Research Center of Digital City Engineering, 8007 Hongli West Road, Shenzhen 518034, ChinaSchool of Resource and Environmental Science, Wuhan University, 129 Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430079, ChinaSchool of Resource and Environmental Science, Wuhan University, 129 Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430079, ChinaSchool of Resource and Environmental Science, Wuhan University, 129 Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430079, ChinaAir pollution is one of the key environmental problems associated with urbanization and land use. Taking Wuhan city, Central China, as a case example, we explore the quantitative relationship between land use (built-up land, water bodies, and vegetation) and air quality (SO2, NO2, and PM10) based on nine ground-level monitoring sites from a long-term spatio-temporal perspective in 2007–2014. Five buffers with radiuses from 0.5 to 4 km are created at each site in geographical information system (GIS) and areas of land use categories within different buffers at each site are calculated. Socio-economic development, energy use, traffic emission, industrial emission, and meteorological condition are taken into consideration to control the influences of those factors on air quality. Results of bivariate correlation analysis between land use variables and annual average concentrations of air pollutants indicate that land use categories have discriminatory effects on different air pollutants, whether for the direction of correlation, the magnitude of correlation or the spatial scale effect of correlation. Stepwise linear regressions are used to quantitatively model their relationships and the results reveal that land use significantly influence air quality. Built-up land with one standard deviation growth will cause 2% increases in NO2 concentration while vegetation will cause 5% decreases. The increases of water bodies with one standard deviation are associated with 3%–6% decreases of SO2 or PM10 concentration, which is comparable to the mitigation effect of meteorology factor such as precipitation. Land use strategies should be paid much more attention while making air pollution reduction policies.http://www.mdpi.com/2073-4433/7/5/62air pollutionland useurbanizationChina |
| spellingShingle | Gang Xu Limin Jiao Suli Zhao Man Yuan Xiaoming Li Yuyao Han Boen Zhang Ting Dong Examining the Impacts of Land Use on Air Quality from a Spatio-Temporal Perspective in Wuhan, China Atmosphere air pollution land use urbanization China |
| title | Examining the Impacts of Land Use on Air Quality from a Spatio-Temporal Perspective in Wuhan, China |
| title_full | Examining the Impacts of Land Use on Air Quality from a Spatio-Temporal Perspective in Wuhan, China |
| title_fullStr | Examining the Impacts of Land Use on Air Quality from a Spatio-Temporal Perspective in Wuhan, China |
| title_full_unstemmed | Examining the Impacts of Land Use on Air Quality from a Spatio-Temporal Perspective in Wuhan, China |
| title_short | Examining the Impacts of Land Use on Air Quality from a Spatio-Temporal Perspective in Wuhan, China |
| title_sort | examining the impacts of land use on air quality from a spatio temporal perspective in wuhan china |
| topic | air pollution land use urbanization China |
| url | http://www.mdpi.com/2073-4433/7/5/62 |
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