https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/s10051-023-00576-1
Regular Article - Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
Q-Weibull distribution to explain the PM2.5 air pollution concentration in Santiago de Chile
1
Instituto de Investigación Multidisciplinario en Ciencia y Tecnología, Universidad de La Serena, 170000, La Serena, Chile
2
Department of Physics, University of La Serena, Av. Juan Cisternas 1200, 170000, La Serena, Chile
Received:
8
May
2023
Accepted:
22
July
2023
Published online:
2
August
2023
It is shown that distribution of PM2.5 concentration recorded by eight air quality monitoring stations during 2021, covering a large part of the Santiago metropolitan region of Chile, can be explained by a q-Weibull function, which has been related in some papers to complex and non-equilibrium statistical systems. It was found that this function has an excellent fit performance on non-filtered data, which cannot be reached by other physical-statistical functions widely used to modeling air pollution distribution in the literature. Finally, relevant interpretations from the fit parameters are shown as well.
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