WSEAS Transactions on Environment and Development
Print ISSN: 1790-5079, E-ISSN: 2224-3496
Volume 14, 2018
Prediction of CO Concentrations in Monterrey, Mexico, by means of ARIMA Models
Authors: , ,
Abstract: Physical and chemical pollutions are a key problem in populated urban areas. The long term monitoring of air pollutants concentrations is a very helpful aid for policy maker, to control the exposure and to keep track of the slope of the data. When and where measurements are not possible, predictive models can help in these issues. Among the several possible techniques, “AutoRegressive Integrated Moving Average” (ARIMA) models are a good choice when a sufficiently large database of measurements is available. In this paper, the authors use the CO concentrations measured in San Nicolas de Garza, in the Metropolitan Area of Monterrey, Mexico, to calibrate and implement two different models. Both the models will provide reliable predictions on a short time range, since they use in input the data measured in close past periods. For this reason, the ARIMA models presented here can provide predictions to maximum 24 hours forward the last measured data. 24, in fact, is the lag that maximizes the autocorrelation of the data and thus it is the seasonality implemented in the models. Finally, the authors will present a validation (comparison with data not used in the calibration) of the models in four different days along the year, showing that the models are not affected by overfitting effects and the results are good also on data not used during the model parameters tuning.
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Pages: 653-661
WSEAS Transactions on Environment and Development, ISSN / E-ISSN: 1790-5079 / 2224-3496, Volume 14, 2018, Art. #71