Climate-stratified assessment of PM2.5 using machine learning: Geographic controls dominate meteorological factors

Someyo Kamal Utsho; Md Rawjatul Fahim; Ruhaidah Samsudin

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0347591

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Climate-stratified assessment of PM_2.5 using machine learning: Geographic controls dominate meteorological factors

Someyo Kamal Utsho,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Software Engineering, Faculty of Computing, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia

https://orcid.org/0009-0006-0869-2031

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Md Rawjatul Fahim ,

Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: 252-35-378@diu.edu.bd

Affiliation Department of Software Engineering, Daffodil International University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

https://orcid.org/0009-0006-7734-0849

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Ruhaidah Samsudin

Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Software Engineering, Faculty of Computing, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia
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Climate-stratified assessment of PM_2.5 using machine learning: Geographic controls dominate meteorological factors

Someyo Kamal Utsho,
Md Rawjatul Fahim,
Ruhaidah Samsudin

Published: September 11, 2026
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0347591

About the Authors

Someyo Kamal Utsho

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Software Engineering, Faculty of Computing, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia

https://orcid.org/0009-0006-0869-2031

Md Rawjatul Fahim

Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: 252-35-378@diu.edu.bd

Affiliation Department of Software Engineering, Daffodil International University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

https://orcid.org/0009-0006-7734-0849

Ruhaidah Samsudin

Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Software Engineering, Faculty of Computing, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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