Advances in Meteorology

Research Article

Spatiotemporal Distribution of Air Pollution Characteristics in Jiangsu Province, China

Table 5

Correlation between primary pollutants and AQI in Jiangsu between September 2017 and August 2018.


Parameter	AQI	PM_2.5	PM₁₀	SO₂	NO₂	O₃

AQI	1	0.966	0.943	0.815	0.923	–0.633
PM_2.5	0.966	1	0.876	0.848	0.937	–0.734
PM₁₀	0.943	0.876	1	0.866	0.933	–0.642
SO₂	0.815	0.848	0.866	1	0.940	–0.732
NO₂	0.923	0.937	0.933	0.940	1	–0.756
O₃	–0.633	–0.734	–0.642	–0.732	–0.756	1

Note. significance of correlation at the 0.05 level (two-tailed);significance of correlation at the 0.1 level (two-tailed).