Temporal and Spatial Distribution of Ozone Pollution in Chinese Urban Agglomerations
With the rapid development of Chinese urban construction, Chinese ozone (O3) pollution received serious attention gradually. The urban agglomeration is the main spatial carrier of the urbanization of the populous country. It is the main form of urbanization. By the end of March 2017, the State Council has approved six state-level urban agglomerations and proposed to optimize the urban agglomerations in the eastern region and cultivate the development of western urban agglomerations. On the other hand, the new division standard of urban scale is to take resident population of the city as the statistical caliber. The city is divided into five categories of seven files. In order to study the temporal and spatial distribution of O3 pollution in China and the relationship between O3 pollution and the city, the geographical detector and the evolution tree model were used to analyze O3 monitoring data from June 2014 to May 2017, totally 36 months. The results show that the level of O3 pollution in China is increasing, and it grows rapidly in 2017, O3 has become the second largest pollution factor after PM2.5, and it appears to be a staggered pollution status with PM2.5 in time. O3 polluted cities are concentrated in the urban agglomeration area, among which the Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration, the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration, the Shandong Peninsula urban agglomeration and the Central Plains urban agglomeration are relatively prominent. Cities of O3 and PM2.5 not exceeding the standard are mainly concentrated in the Beibu Gulf urban agglomeration and the West Straits Urban Agglomeration. O3 pollution in the city of large population scale is more serious and has a negative impact on the surrounding cities.
O3temporal and spatial distributiongeographical detectorevolution treeurban agglomeration