Fig. 2: The evaluation of the mapping effects on different temporal scales.

Comparative evaluation of mapping effects on a hourly scale, b daily scale, and c monthly scale before and after the reduction of micro-fixed monitoring points. The panels in the first, third, and fifth rows display the spatiotemporal distributions of hourly, daily, and monthly averages of PM2.5 concentration data products developed from multi-source data before reducing the number of micro-fixed monitoring points. In contrast, the panels in the second, fourth, and sixth rows depict the corresponding distributions after the reduction.