Research on Rapid Identification Technology of Sand and Dust Characteristic Monitoring Data Based on Optimized K-Means Clustering

The criteria-based sand and dust weather determination method has the problem ofbeing a cumbersome and time-consuming process when processing a large amount of raw data, and cannot avoid the problems of repeatability and reproducibility. On the basis of statistical analysis of the air automatic monitoring data in the cities affected by sand and dust, this paper proposes a k-means optimization algorithm (MDPD-k-means) based on maximum density and percentage distance, which can quickly filter the characteristic data of sand and dust in a short time, and identify the days affected by sand and dust. This method effectively improves the data processing efficiency, solves the problems of poor reproducibility and large artificial error of traditional methods, and can support the business application of sand and dust data elimination. This paper uses the method to identify the sand and dust data of 10 cities in Shaanxi Province from 2016 to 2022, determines a total of 1107 sand and dust days, and points out that the number of days affected by sand and dust is increasing year by year. After excluding the effect of sand and dust, the urban PM₁₀ concentration decreases by 18.42~1.41% respectively, which provides important data information for accurately evaluating the effectiveness of air pollution prevention and control.