A case study for assessing uncertainty in local-scale regulatory air quality modeling applications

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 37, Issue 25, 2003, Pages 3481-3489

  Sax, Todd ^a   Isakov, Vlad ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA AIR RESOURCES BOARD   (United States)

Author keywords

AERMOD; Air quality modeling; Air toxics; Emissions inventory; Hazardous air pollutants; Hexavalent chromium; ISCST3; Uncertainty analysis; Welding

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL TESTING; METEOROLOGY; PARTICULATE EMISSIONS;

POLLUTANTS;

AIR QUALITY;

CHROMIUM;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; EMISSION INVENTORY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WELDING;

AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY CONTROL; AIR QUALITY STANDARD; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION; CASE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; METEOROLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHIP; WELDING;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0038016971     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1352-2310(03)00411-4     Document Type: Article

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