| Abbreviations | Full Name |
| AI | artificial intelligence |
| ANN | artificial neural network |
| AQGs | Global Air Quality Guidelines |
| ARIMA | autoregressive integrated moving average |
| bior | biorthogonal |
| BP | back propagation |
| BR | Bayesian regularization algorithm |
| CA | approximate composition |
| CD | detailed composition |
| CNN | convolutional neural network |
| coif | coiflet |
| CWT | continuous wavelet transform |
| DA-RNN | dual-stage attention-based recurrent neural network |
| db | Daubechies |
| DL | deep learning |
| DTR | decision tree regressor |
| DWT | discrete wavelet transform |
| EMD-GRU | gated recurrent unit neural network based on empirical mode decomposition |
| EWV | extreme wind velocity |
| GA-SVM | combined genetic algorithm and support vector machine |
| GBDT | gradient boosted decision trees |
| GBM | gradient boosting machine |
| GBRT | gradient boosting regression tree |
| GDP | gross domestic product |
| GRU | gated recurrent unit neural network |
| LM | Levenberg–Marquardt algorithm |
| LSTM | long short-term memory |
| MAE | mean absolute error |
| MAP | mean atmospheric pressure |
| MAT | mean atmospheric temperature |
| MAXAP | maximum atmospheric pressure |
| MAXAT | maximum atmospheric temperature |
| MAXWV | maximum wind velocity |
| MINAP | minimum atmospheric pressure |
| MINAT | minimum atmospheric temperature |
| MINRH | minimum relative humidity |
| ML | machine learning |
| MLR | multiple linear regression |
| MRH | mean relative humidity |
| MWP | mean water vapor pressure |
| MWV | mean wind velocity |
| P | precipitation |
| PM2.5 | fine particulate matter |
| R | correlation coefficient |
| RE | relative error |
| ReLU | rectified linear unit |
| RF | random forest |
| RMSE | root mean square error |
| RNN | recurrent neural network |
| SH | sunshine hours |
| SVM | support vector machine |
| SVR | support vector regression |
| sym | symlet |
| WANN | wavelet-ANN |
| W-GRU | wavelet-GRU |
| WHO | World Health Organization |
| W-LSTM | wavelet-LSTM |
| WT | wavelet transformation |
| XGBoost | extreme gradient boosting |