Monitoring of air pollution in Indian metropolitan cities: Modelling and quality indexing

International Journal of Environment and Pollution

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 365-382

  Mouli, P Chandra ^a   Kumar, M Praveen ^a   Reddy, S Jayarama ^a   Mohan, S Venkata ^b  

^a SRI VENKATESWARA UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Air pollutants; Air quality index; India; Meteorological variables; Simple linear regression

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; CATALYTIC CONVERTERS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY; PARTICULATE EMISSIONS; TOXIC MATERIALS; VEHICLES;

AIR POLLUTANT CONCENTRATIONS; INDUSTRIALIZATION; METEOROLOGICAL VARIABLES; VEHICLE FLEET;

AIR POLLUTION;

AIR QUALITY; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INDUSTRIAL EMISSION; PARTICULATE MATTER;

AIR ANALYSIS; AIR MONITORING; AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; AIR SAMPLING; ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; CITY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EXHAUST GAS; INDIA; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; METEOROLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 2442623299     PISSN: 09574352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJEP.2004.005114     Document Type: Article

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