Fractal analysis of temporal variation of air pollutant concentration by box counting

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 243-251

  Lee, C K ^a   Ho, D S ^a   Yu, C C ^a   Wang, C C ^a  

^a VAN NUNG INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Air pollutant concentration; Box dimension; Critical scale; Scale invariance; Threshold

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; STATISTICAL METHODS;

BOX COUNTING METHOD;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; MONITORING; SCALE EFFECT; TEMPORAL VARIATION; THRESHOLD; TIME SERIES;

EID: 0037208407     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1364-8152(02)00078-6     Document Type: Article

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