ARIMA forecasting of ambient air pollutants (O3, NO, NO2 and CO) |
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| Authors: | Ujjwal Kumar V K Jain |
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| Institution: | (1) Flemish Institute for Technological Research (VITO), Mol, Belgium;(2) School of Environmental Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India |
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| Abstract: | In the present study, a stationary stochastic ARMA/ARIMA Autoregressive Moving (Integrated) Average] modelling approach has
been adapted to forecast daily mean ambient air pollutants (O3, CO, NO and NO2) concentration at an urban traffic site (ITO) of Delhi, India. Suitable variance stabilizing transformation has been applied
to each time series in order to make them covariance stationary in a consistent way. A combination of different information-criterions,
namely, AIC (Akaike Information Criterion), HIC (Hannon–Quinn Information Criterion), BIC (Bayesian Information criterion),
and FPE (Final Prediction Error) in addition to ACF (autocorrelation function) and PACF (partial autocorrelation function)
inspection, has been tried out to obtain suitable orders of autoregressive (p) and moving average (q) parameters for the ARMA(p,q)/ARIMA(p,d,q)
models. Forecasting performance of the selected ARMA(p,q)/ARIMA(p,d,q) models has been evaluated on the basis of MAPE (mean
absolute percentage error), MAE (mean absolute error) and RMSE (root mean square error) indicators. For 20 out of sample forecasts,
one step (i.e., one day) ahead MAPE for CO, NO2, NO and O3, have been found to be 13.6, 12.1, 21.8 and 24.1%, respectively. Given the stochastic nature of air pollutants data and in
the light of earlier reported studies regarding air pollutants forecasts, the forecasting performance of the present approach
is satisfactory and the suggested forecasting procedure can be effectively utilized for short term air quality forewarning
purposes. |
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