Estimating the wind direction of maximum air pollutant concentration

Environmetrics

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 231-243

  Somerville, Matthew C ^a   Mukerjee, Shaibal ^b   Fox, Donald L ^c  

^a ALION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^c IL   (United States)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Beta function; Directional statistics; Non linear model; Source receptor modelling

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION CONCENTRATION; MAXIMUM POLLUTION DIRECTION; NONLINEAR MODEL; SOURCE/RECEPTOR MODELLING; WIND FIELD DIRECTION;

EID: 0029669187     PISSN: 11804009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-095X(199603)7:2<231::AID-ENV207>3.0.CO;2-I     Document Type: Article

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