title: Study on spatial distribution of crop residue burning and PM2.5change in China.
abstract: With China as the study area, MODIS MOD14A1 and MCD12Q1 products were used to derive daily crop residue burning spots from 2014 to 2015. After vectorization of crop residue burning pixels and with the use of fishnet, burning density distribution maps were eventually completed. Meanwhile, the daily air quality data from 150 cities in 2014 and 285 cities in 2015 were used to obtain daily and monthly PM2.5distribution maps with the Kriging interpolation. The results indicate that crop residue burning occurs in a seasonal pattern, and its spatial distribution is closely related to farming activities. The annual PM2.5in China decreased 11.81% from 2014 to 2015, and the distribution of PM2.5in China's east and north is always higher than in China's west and south. Furthermore, the changes in PM2.5exhibit a hysteresis after crop residue burning in summer and autumn-winter. Regarding summer crop residue burning in China's middle-east, the r between crop residue burning spots and PM2.5is 0.6921 (P < 0.01) in 2014 and 0.5620 (P < 0.01) in 2015, while the correlation coefficient of autumn-winter crop residue burning in China's northeast is slightly lower with an r of 0.5670 (P < 0.01) in 2014 and 0.6213 (P < 0.01) in 2015. In autumn-winter, crop residue burning can induce evident PM2.5increase in China's northeast, and that is more obvious than summer crop residue burning in China's middle-east. Furthermore, when data of summer and autumn-winter crop residue burning from 2014 to 2015 are compared, we can see that the change in number of crop residue burning spots significant changes PM2.5in these regions. Both the summer and autumn-winter crop residue burning areas presented spatial consistency with high PM2.5. By contrast, the results from many aspects indicated that the crop residue burning in spring did not cause a notable change of PM2.5.
authors.affiliation: Graduate School of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 0608589, Japan. Electronic address: yinshuai@env.agr.hokudai.ac.jp.
authors.forename: Shuai
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yin
authors.affiliation: Research Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 0608589, Japan. Electronic address: wang@env.agr.hokudai.ac.jp.
authors.forename: Xiufeng
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: College of Tourism and Land Resources, Chongqing Technology and Business University, Chongqing 400067, China. Electronic address: xiaoyi999999@yeah.net.
authors.forename: Yi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Xiao
authors.affiliation: Research Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 0608589, Japan. Electronic address: tani@env.agr.hokudai.ac.jp.
authors.forename: Hiroshi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Tani
authors.affiliation: Graduate School of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 0608589, Japan. Electronic address: zhgs@env.agr.hokudai.ac.jp.
authors.forename: Guosheng
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Zhong
authors.affiliation: Graduate School of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 0608589, Japan. Electronic address: sunzy025@env.agr.hokudai.ac.jp.
authors.forename: Zhongyi
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Sun
mesh_terms: D000383:Agriculture; D000393:Air Pollutants / Q000032:analysis*; D002681:China; D002947:Cities; D004784:Environmental Monitoring / Q000379:methods*; D052638:Particulate Matter / Q000032:analysis*
chemical_list: D000393:Air Pollutants; D052638:Particulate Matter
keywords: Air pollution; MCD12Q1; MOD14A1; Northeast China; Spatial consistency