Ozone indices based on simple meteorological parameters: Potentials and limitations of regression and neural network models

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 33, Issue 26, 1999, Pages 4299-4307

  Soja, G ^a   Soja, A M ^a  

^a ARC SEIBERSDORF RESEARCH GMBH   (Austria)

Author keywords

Calculation; Meteorological model; Neural network model; Ozone index; Regression model

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY; NEURAL NETWORKS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RURAL AREAS;

METEOROLOGICAL PARAMETERS; NEURAL NETWORK MODELS; OZONE INDICES; REGRESSION MODELS; RURAL ENVIRONMENT;

OZONE;

OZONE;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; METEOROLOGY; OZONE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; AUSTRIA; CALCULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; METEOROLOGY; MODEL; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL AREA; SHORT SURVEY; SUMMER;

EID: 0032586576     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1352-2310(99)00126-0     Document Type: Article

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