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Arid Land Geography ›› 2022, Vol. 45 ›› Issue (4): 1082-1092.doi: 10.12118/j.issn.1000-6060.2021.443

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Characteristics of air pollution and its polluted weather types of urban agglomeration on the north slope of the middle Tianshan Mountains from 2017 to 2019

LI Shuting1,2,3(),LI Xia1,2(),Mauren AYIKAN1,2,ZHONG Yuting1,2,WANG Huiqin1,2   

  1. 1. Institute of Desert Meteorology, China Meteorological Administration, Urumqi 830002, Xinjiang, China
    2. Field Scientific Experiment Base of Akdala Atmospheric Background, China Meteorological Administration, Urumqi 830002, Xinjiang, China
    3. Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Tree-Ring Ecology, Urumqi 830002, Xinjiang, China
  • Received:2021-10-03 Revised:2022-01-20 Online:2022-07-25 Published:2022-08-11
  • Contact: Xia LI E-mail:lishuting@idm.cn;susannaryy@163.com

Abstract:

The air pollution in urban agglomeration (Urumqi City, Changji City, Shihezi City, Wujiaqu City) on the north slope of the middle Tianshan Mountains, Xinjiang, china is more serious than that in several eastern urban agglomerations. However, the characteristics of air pollution and corresponding polluted synoptic weathers on the north slope of the middle Tianshan Mountains are poorly understood. Herein, the variation characteristics of air pollutants and polluted synoptic types were analyzed using the hourly air pollutant data and meteorological data of four cities on the north slope of the middle Tianshan Mountains collected from 2017 to 2019. Results showed that: (1) among the six pollutants, PM2.5 was the primary pollutant with the maximum number of days exceeding the second standard of particulate matter in China at nearly 1/3 days (94-104 days) in a whole year. The annual average concentrations of PM2.5 were ranked as follows: Wujiaqu City (73 μg·m-3) > Urumqi City (71 μg·m-3) > Shihezi City (65 μg·m-3) > Changji City (64 μg·m-3). PM2.5 concentration during the heating period was between 100 μg·m-3 and 118 μg·m-3, which was 4.00-5.00 times higher than that during the nonheating period. The diurnal variation of PM2.5 concentration almost followed “bimodal distribution” for the three cities near the mountains but showed “unimodal distribution” for Wujiaqu City. (2) The polluted weather can be divided into three types: stagnant, dusty, and special. 86.2%-93.6% of the study area belonged to stagnant pollution, whereas 5.8%-13.2% experienced dusty pollution. Stagnant pollution mostly occurred in winter, whereas dusty pollution primarily occurred in spring and autumn. Stagnant pollution level V-VI accounted for 45.8%-56.6%, and dusty pollution at the same level accounted for 14.9%-29.4%. (3) The correlation between the PM10 and PM2.5 of these two pollution types was extremely high, and the PM10 to PM2.5 ratios were 1.26 and 3.16 for stagnant and dusty pollution, respectively. These values can be used to distinguish between stagnant and dusty pollution weathers.

Key words: exceedance day, pollutant concentration, polluted weather types, stagnant weather, dusty weather