用气象数据提前预测垃圾场硫化氢泄漏,助力公共卫生主动应对。
Meteorology-driven Causal Nowcasting of Fugitive Landfill Emissions Enables Proactive Public Health Response

- 基于气象数据构建时序记忆模型,区分小时级风向传输与多小时天气变化影响。
- 模型在两个监测点及甲烷预测上表现一致,准确匹配社区臭味投诉记录。
- 无需复杂特征工程,可直接用于预警系统,支持实时干预决策。
垃圾填埋场逸散排放的有毒气体正日益威胁周边居民健康,但现有响应多为事后补救。本文通过分析长期监测的欧洲垃圾填埋场数据,发现气象因素对硫化氢(HS)浓度升高的驱动机制及作用时长。提出CAIRN(因果锚定受体即时预测框架),其内部记忆结构与实测时尺度匹配:快速组件追踪小时级风载传输,慢速组件追踪数小时天气变化。该模型仅需常规气象变量和日历信息,无需人工特征工程,即可精准预测气体浓度。其行为符合已识别的传输机制,并成功迁移至第二监测站及共排放的甲烷预测。四个此类模型集成后形成站点级分级预警,紧密对应世卫组织臭味指引,且与独立社区投诉记录高度吻合。因此,基于气象的即时预测可实时评估污染事件对公众的影响,为公共卫生部门提供经验证的分层干预触发机制,实现事件中的暴露减少而非事后补救。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Fugitive emissions from waste sites increasingly expose communities to toxic and odorous gases, yet public-health responses remain largely retrospective, with episodes investigated only after residents have been exposed. Here we show that the meteorological drivers of elevated hydrogen sulphide (HS) at a long-monitored European landfill, and the timescales over which they act, can be identified directly from routine monitoring data. We introduce CAIRN (Causal-Anchored Inference for Receptor Nowcasting), a machine-learning framework whose internal memory is matched to these measured timescales: a fast component tracking hour-scale wind-borne transport and a slow component tracking multi-hour weather changes. Trained to predict gas measurements, CAIRN operates using only routine weather variables and the calendar, without hand-engineered features. Its behaviour is consistent with the identified transport mechanisms, and the framework transfers unchanged to a second monitoring station and to co-emitted methane. Combining four such nowcasters produces a site-level, tiered alert aligned with WHO odour guidance that closely reproduces the alert generated by a direct sensor network and tracks an independent record of community odour complaints. Weather-driven nowcasting can therefore estimate community impact as an emission episode unfolds, providing public-health authorities with a validated, graded trigger for intervention and enabling exposure to be reduced during events rather than after them.
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