Estimating source apportionment of particulate matters based on source profiles with fluctuations

Environmetrics

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 341-350

  Ohtaki, Megu ^a   Sato, Manabu ^a   Nitta, Hiroshi ^b  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Indoor fine particles; Least squares estimation with constraints; Source profile

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030745684     PISSN: 11804009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-095X(199707)8:4<341::AID-ENV256>3.0.CO;2-P     Document Type: Article

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