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48 results for spectral pollution

New methods avoid spectral pollution in transfer operators for accurate analysis.

problem Spectral pollution in finite-dimensional approximations of transfer operators.
method Algorithms for computing spectral properties of transfer operators without spectral pollution.
result Accurate spectral estimation across various applications, including protein folding models.

Bayesian method estimates Kronecker graphical models from autoregressive processes.

problem Estimating Kronecker graphical models from autoregressive Gaussian processes.
method Bayesian approach to estimate Kronecker graphical models.
result Effectiveness demonstrated through numerical experiments and real-world data application.

This paper analyzes air pollution trends in Rwanda using low-cost sensors and machine learning.

problem Lack of reliable air pollution data in Rwanda due to high costs of equipment.
method Analysis of existing data and development of forecasting models using low-cost sensors and machine learning.
result Proposes forecasting models for air pollution data collected by low-cost sensors.

This study examines whether PCA can effectively identify nitrogen pollution sources in rivers.

problem Identifying pollution sources in rivers for effective environmental management.
method Principal Component Analysis and its modifications, along with Independent Component Analysis and Factor Analysis, are applied to nitrogen pollution source identification.
result PCA and related techniques can be powerful tools for uncovering nitrogen pollution sources in rivers.

Online algorithms for identifying river pollution sources.

problem Real-time estimation of river pollution sources from downstream data.
method Gradient-based online learning algorithms with adaptive step sizes and escaping from saddle points module.
result High estimation accuracy in three dimensions, superior to existing methods.

Unified framework for growth models with environmental risk and pollution-dependent disasters.

problem Analyzing how rare but catastrophic shocks interact with capital accumulation and pollution in stochastic growth models.
method General Poisson point process formulation leading to non-local HJB equations with closed-form solutions.
result Unified framework captures how environmental degradation amplifies macroeconomic vulnerability and strengthens incentives for abatement.

Study shows reducing anthropogenic emissions significantly lowers PM2.5PM_{2.5} levels but has little effect on O3O_3 in Delhi.

problem Understanding and mitigating the effects of anthropogenic emissions on air pollution in Delhi.
method Predictive modeling, causal inference, Gaussian Process modeling, Granger causality analysis.
result Reductions in anthropogenic emissions lead to significant decreases in PM2.5PM_{2.5} levels but have little effect on O3O_3.

Researchers develop a new method to assess variable importance in spatial machine learning models for air pollution exposure prediction.

problem Understanding the mechanism captured by machine learning models in air pollution studies, especially with spatial correlation.
method Leave-one-out approach for variable importance measure applicable to models with separable mean and covariance components.
result The new method highlights differences in model mechanisms even for similar prediction accuracies.

The study corrects measurement error in evaluating health effects of multiple pollutants.

problem Bias in estimating health effects of air pollution constituents due to mismeasurement.
method Used a linear regression calibration model and extended DML approach to correct for measurement error.
result Identified two PM2.5 constituents (Br and Mn) that show a negative causal effect on cognitive function after correction.

GraphSVR forecasts urban air pollution robustly across stations and seasons.

problem Nonlinear, nonstationary, spatiotemporally dependent urban air pollution forecasting challenges.
method Combines graph convolutional learning and support vector regression.
result GraphSVR improves predictive accuracy and maintains stable performance across seasons and outlier-prone episodes.

The study examines how climate risk influences sovereign debt default decisions.

problem The relationship between climate risk and sovereign debt default decisions.
method Calibration of a model to analyze the credit spreads of sovereign bonds and the impact of climate vulnerability on bond spreads.
result Climate risk does not significantly influence the decision to default on sovereign debt.

Artificial Neural Network predicts PM2.5 pollution with low-cost sensors.

problem Costly and bulky PM2.5 monitoring instruments limit real-time, high-resolution data.
method Analytical equations derived using Artificial Neural Network (ANN).
result RMSE of 1.7973 ug/m3 and R2 of 0.9986 for eight predictors; 7.5372 ug/m3 and 0.9708 for three predictors.

Polluting fine dusts in South Korea which are mainly consisted of biomass burning and fugitive dust blown from dust belt is significant problem these days. Predicting concentrations of fine dust particles in Seoul is challenging because they are product of complicate chemical reactions among gaseous pollutants and also…

2019-01-29abs ↗pdf ↗

Weather2vec learns representations to adjust for non-local confounding in air pollution studies.

problem Non-local confounding in evaluating environmental policies and climate events on health outcomes.
method weather2vec framework using balancing scores to learn representations of non-local information.
result The framework effectively adjusts for confounding in air pollution studies.

Study develops ensemble machine learning framework for predicting groundwater heavy metal pollution.

problem Statistical complexity and spatial heterogeneity of heavy metal contamination in groundwater.
method Nested cross-validated ensemble machine learning with response transformations (raw, log, Gaussian copula).
result Copula-based models with DBSCAN clustering diagnostics provide the most reliable and interpretable assessments of groundwater contamination.

Modeling air pollutants using data-driven techniques and sparse identification of nonlinear dynamics.

problem Predicting concentrations of air pollutants using hidden physical laws.
method Sparse identification of nonlinear dynamics (SINDy) for parsimonious systems of ordinary differential equations.
result More than half of the critical points are saddle points, indicating system instability.

Interpretable additive models outperform complex DL and hybrid pipelines for air quality forecasting.

problem Accurate forecasting of urban air pollution for public health and policy guidance.
method Investigated lightweight additive models (FBP, NP) vs. deep learning and hybrid pipelines on Beijing PM2.5 and PM10 data.
result Facebook Prophet consistently outperformed NeuralProphet and traditional models, achieving high R2R^2 values.

Mobile and ubiquitous sensing of urban air quality has received increased attention as an economically and operationally viable means to survey atmospheric environment with high spatial-temporal resolution. This paper proposes a machine learning based mobile air pollution sensing framework, called Deep-MAPS, and demons…

2019-04-28abs ↗pdf ↗

Time-aware deep learning methods improve spatial downscaling of atmospheric pollutants.

problem Transform coarse satellite data of atmospheric pollutants into high-resolution fields.
method Super-resolution deep residual networks and UNet architectures are extended with a temporal module encoding observation time.
result Temporal modules significantly improve downscaling performance and convergence speed.

Quantile gradient boosted trees outperform other models in predicting NO2 concentration distributions.

problem Forecasting high NO2 concentration episodes for effective air quality management.
method Compared 10 probabilistic forecasting models for NO2 concentration prediction.
result Quantile gradient boosted trees model outperformed others in predicting NO2 concentration distributions.

Data collection in economically constrained countries often necessitates using approximate and biased measurements due to the low-cost of the sensors used. This leads to potentially invalid predictions and poor policies or decision making. This is especially an issue if methods from resource-rich regions are applied wi…

2019-11-28abs ↗pdf ↗

The study forecasts water quality from satellite data using machine learning.

problem Predicting future water quality from satellite data for coastal regions.
method Decomposed time series into components and used machine learning models (SARIMA, regression, neural network).
result Regression and neural network models are best at predicting Chl-a, SARIMA model best at FLH and SST.

This paper analyzes the dynamic incentives for technology adoption under a transferable permits system, which allows for strategic trading on the permit market. Initially, firms can invest both in low-emitting production technologies and trade permits. In the model, technology adoption and allowance price are generated…

2011-03-15abs ↗pdf ↗

Defines an implied CO2-price to cover climate change costs, finding it significantly higher than the SCC.

problem The social cost of carbon (SCC) does not fully cover climate change costs.
method Defines an implied CO2-price as a 'polluter pays principle' and calculates its value using a DICE model.
result The cost-implied CO2 price is around 500/tCO2,comparedto50/tCO2, compared to 50/tCO2 for SCC.

Air quality forecasting has been regarded as the key problem of air pollution early warning and control management. In this paper, we propose a novel deep learning model for air quality (mainly PM2.5) forecasting, which learns the spatial-temporal correlation features and interdependence of multivariate air quality rel…

2018-12-12abs ↗pdf ↗

This work robustifies Wasserstein distance estimation with MoM estimators for outlier-polluted data.

problem Estimating Wasserstein distance between two distributions with outliers.
method Introducing MoM-based robust estimators for Wasserstein distance.
result Consistent MoM-based estimators for Wasserstein distance with convergence rates.