Correlation of air pollution and meteorological data using neural networks

International Journal of Environment and Pollution

Volumn 20, Issue 1-6, 2003, Pages 218-229

  Slini, Theodora ^a   Karatzas, Kostas ^a   Moussiopoulos, Nicolas ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Environmental informatics; Forecasting; Multi layer perceptons; Neural networks

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; METEOROLOGY; MULTILAYERS; NEURAL NETWORKS;

ENVIRONMENTAL FORECASTING TOOL; MULTI-LAYER PERCEPTON (MLP) MODELS;

AIR POLLUTION;

CARBON MONOXIDE; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; OZONE;

AIR QUALITY; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; FORECASTING METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL;

AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; COMPUTER MODEL; CONFERENCE PAPER; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GREECE; METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PERFORMANCE; RELIABILITY;

ATHENS [ATTICA]; ATTICA; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 2342421564     PISSN: 09574352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/ijep.2003.004279     Document Type: Article

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