Spatial-temporal models for ambient hourly PM10 in Vancouver

Environmetrics

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 321-338

  Li, Kathy H ^a   Le, Nhu D ^b   Sun, Li ^b   Zidek, James V ^b  

^a ST PAUL S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Autoregressive processes; Monitoring networks; PM10; Space time models; Spatial correlation; Spatial interpolation

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT AIR; MONITORING SYSTEM; PARTICULATE MATTER; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; VANCOUVER;

EID: 0033028089     PISSN: 11804009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-095X(199905/06)10:3<321::AID-ENV355>3.0.CO;2-D     Document Type: Article

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