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Articles | Volume 25, issue 20
Articles | Volume 25, issue 20
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-13585-2025
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-13585-2025
© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 25, issue 20
Research article
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23 Oct 2025
Research article |  | 23 Oct 2025

Rethinking machine learning weather normalisation: a refined strategy for short-term air pollution policies

Yuqing Dai, Bowen Liu, Chengxu Tong, David C. Carslaw, A. Robert MacKenzie, and Zongbo Shi

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Air pollution causes millions of deaths annually, driving policies to improve air quality. However, assessing these policies is challenging because weather changes can hide their true impact. We created a logical evaluation framework and found that a widely applied machine learning approach that adjusts for weather effects could underestimate the effectiveness of short-term policies, like emergency traffic controls. We proposed a refined approach that could largely reduce such underestimation.
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