Estimating the direction of an unknown air pollution source using a digital elevation model and a sample of deposition

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 124, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 85-95

  Antonić, Oleg ^a   Legović, Tarzan ^a  

^a RUDER BO KOVI INSTITUTE   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Exposure; GIS; Heavy metals; Landscape ecotoxicology; Soil; Spatial interpolationi Topography; Wind flux

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; CROATIA; MODEL;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; ESTIMATION METHOD; POINT SOURCE POLLUTION; POLLUTION MONITORING;

EID: 0033485525     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3800(99)00149-0     Document Type: Article

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