Forecasting daily maximum ozone concentrations in the Athens Basin

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 97-112

  Chaloulakou, A ^a   Assimacopoulos, D ^a   Lekkas, T ^b  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b Department of the Environment   (Greece)

Author keywords

Air pollution in Athens; Ozone concentration; Prediction of episodes; Statistical modelling

Indexed keywords

DAILY MAXIMUM OZONE CONCENTRATIONS;

FORECASTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OZONE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WIND EFFECTS;

AIR POLLUTION;

OZONE;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; FORECASTING METHOD; OZONE; PREDICTION;

ACCURACY; AIR MONITORING; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; FORECASTING; GREECE; MODEL; SUMMER; WIND;

EID: 0032916107     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005943201063     Document Type: Article

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