Articles | Volume 13, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-1213-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-1213-2020
Research article
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11 Mar 2020
Research article |  | 11 Mar 2020

Filling the gaps of in situ hourly PM2.5 concentration data with the aid of empirical orthogonal function analysis constrained by diurnal cycles

Kaixu Bai, Ke Li, Jianping Guo, Yuanjian Yang, and Ni-Bin Chang

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AR by Jianping Guo on behalf of the Authors (02 Dec 2019)  Author's response    Manuscript
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ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (09 Jan 2020) by Jun Wang
AR by Jianping Guo on behalf of the Authors (14 Jan 2020)  Author's response    Manuscript
ED: Publish as is (09 Feb 2020) by Jun Wang
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Short summary
A novel gap-filling method called the diurnal-cycle-constrained empirical orthogonal function (DCCEOF) is proposed. Cross validation indicates that this method gives high accuracy in predicting missing values in daily PM2.5 time series by accounting for the local diurnal phases, especially by reconstructing daily extrema that cannot be accurately restored by other approaches. The DCCEOF method can be easily applied to other data sets because of its self-consistent capability.