Spatiotemporal Variation and Pattern Analysis of Air Pollution and Its Correlation with NDVI in Nanjing City, China: A Landsat-Based Study
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
Dear Author/s
forests-2656522
The manuscript forests-2656522 titled (Spatiotemporal Variation and Pattern Analysis of Air Pollution and its Correlation with Landsat-Derived Normalized Difference Vegetation Index: A Case Study of Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province) is well written and contains appreciable efforts, we do really enjoy reading the MS and we do encourage to be published meanwhile, the manuscript needs more effort to raise it to the level of acceptance within the Forests. The introduction part looks perfect but should be modified, part of it looks like to copied from another source (GPT), if you noticed there are numbers within the introduction which should not be there such as (12, 3., 4. “multiple times”, in Lines 43, 46, 53, 61, 65, 67, 68, 74, 77, 83, 88, 91, 96, and 101, respectively,). We do like the author/s mentioned in line 121 (This innovative approach utilizes plant-based remediation to control air pollution), but surprisingly, the author/s did not elaborate more, although this was the main part of this study is not monitoring but implementing solutions. Therefore, the introduction should look global contain a paragraph about solutions, and cover important studies in West Asia as we suggested below. On the other hand, this type of research benefits the surrounding community and humanity not only for research purposes, therefore, some recommendations/solutions should be addressed. Please go through the comments in detail, and hope to see your reply.
There are some essential comments authors should take into consideration such as below:
General remarks:
Do not begin the introduction with (With) change to (The rapid ….)
Specific remarks:
The title
o An advice for the future (use shorter titles) as this title is too long. To attract citations title should be the fewest words as possible.
Abstract
Simplify it as possible (add the aim, and importance of this study, and main conclusions and recommendations), most researchers will focus on your title and abstract, so make it as perfect as possible. The advice was given to me by one reviewer a long time ago (always make your fingerprint in your manuscript (figures, tables, text), that if anyone sees it in the street, he knows it belongs to you.
Keywords
add (China)
The introduction:
o The introduction part looks perfect but should be modified, part of it looks like it was copied from another source (GPT):
§ if you noticed there are numbers within the introduction which should not be there such as (12, 3., 4. “multiple times”, in Lines 43, 46, 53, 61, 65, 67, 68, 74, 77, 83, 88, 91, 96, and 101, respectively,). We do like the author/s mentioned in line 121 (This innovative approach utilizes plant-based remediation to control air pollution), but surprisingly, the author/s did not elaborate more, although this was the main part of this study is not monitoring but implementing solutions, and should be mentioned clearly at the end of the introduction. Therefore, the introduction should look global contain a paragraph about solutions, and cover important studies in West Asia as we suggested below. On the other hand, this type of research benefits the surrounding community and humanity not only for research purposes, therefore, some recommendations/solutions should be addressed.
Add the following paragraph at the end of the introduction section from studies in West Asia to support your marvelous study as follows:
§ {Air pollution may cause direct and indirect adverse effects on fauna, flora, and human health on a regional scale in Iran (Doronzo et al. 2016), Subramaniam et al., 2015), Air pollution has a socio-economic impact on health and photovoltaic energy efficiency. Therefore the aim of this study is to…..}.
Materials and methods
o No need for figure 3.
Results and discussion
o Figures 4, 5 and 6. Is so small, cannot be distinguished (make it clear with high-resolution
Conclusion
o Looks perfect add one sentence about solutions and future studies.
Supportive references suggested to be added as mentioned in the comments:
Suggested references
Doronzo, et al. (2016). Preface to the Dust Topical Collection. Arab J Geosci 9, 468 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12517-016-2504-9
Subramaniam, et al. (2015). Probability distribution and extreme value analysis of total suspended particulate matter in Kuwait. Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 8(12), 11329-11344. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12517-015-2008-z
Author Response
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Reviewer 2 Report
The manuscript deals with a case study of air pollution in Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province, China from 2013 to 2021. The authors analyse SO2, NO2, PM2.5, PM10, and O3 data and investigate the changes in air pollutants and vegetation index over time and space, as well as their relationship with each other, and to assess the social and environmental impacts of air pollution.
The manuscript is clearly written, the introduction provides sufficient data on the problem, the methods and results are well explained, and the discussion provides a comparison with available literature data.
I have only a few minor comments:
1) Please check the formatting of references in the text (mostly in the introduction, but also throughout the text). Many are missing square brackets.
2) Line 150. Please include the ENVI software developer and version.
3) Figures 7-9. It is impossible to read the figure legend in this resolution. I believe the final manuscript will have figures in higher resolution.
4) Line 421. Significant instead of significantly.
Author Response
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