A comparison of four techniques for separating different time scales in atmospheric variables

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 313-325

  Hogrefe, Christian ^a,d   Vempaty, Somaraju ^b   Rao, S Trivikrama ^a   Porter, P Steven ^c  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b SRKR ENGINEERING COLLEGE   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^d NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Ozone; Spectral decomposition; Time series analysis; Trends; Wavelets

Indexed keywords

AIR FILTERS; AIR POLLUTION; EXTRACTION; FILTRATION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ATMOSPHERIC VARIABLES;

OZONE;

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; OZONE; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; TIME SERIES; TREND ANALYSIS; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; DECOMPOSITION; ENERGY; EVALUATION; FILTRATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; POLLUTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0346667101     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1352-2310(02)00897-X     Document Type: Article

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