Articles | Volume 26, issue 16
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-26-11683-2026
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Quantitative insights into regime-dependent aerosol pH variability in ammonia-rich urban Beijing from explainable machine learning
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AR by Ru-Jin Huang on behalf of the Authors (05 Aug 2026)
This study investigated the key factors to aerosol pH variability based on machine learning with SHAP. Especially, they found the regime-dependent influence of RH due to interactions with other factors, which is less investigated before. In general, this study is based on promising new method, and found interesting results. However, the breadth and depth of this study needs to be improved before it can be accepted.
(1) How will the threshold of the regimes vary with sites? There're many public available datasets for aerosol acidity calculations (e.g., https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-9309-2019), and such investigations should be easy with established methods.
(2) Accordingly, more in-depth explanation of the regime-depedent interactions should be applied. Current explanations are too general, and the conclusions and patterns can hardly be confidentially applied to other scenarios. At least, whether and why it applies to all ammonia-Rich urban atmosphere, as outlined in the title, should be discussed and investigated in more detail.