Evaluation of a year-long dispersion modelling of PM10 using the mesoscale model TAPM for Christchurch, New Zealand

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 349, Issue 1-3, 2005, Pages 249-259

  Zawar Reza, Peyman ^a   Kingham, Simon ^a   Pearce, Jamie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Air pollution dispersion; Exposure; Modelling; TAPM

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; DEGRADATION; DISPERSIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

AIR POLLUTION DISPERSION; EXPOSURE; INDEX OF AGREEMENT (IOA); TAPM;

GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS;

FUEL;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; MODELING; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT;

AIR MONITORING; AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; DEVICE; DISPERSION; HEALTH HAZARD; HEATING; HOME; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; METEOROLOGY; NEW ZEALAND; NIGHT; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; SIMULATION; SMOG; SOLID; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL; TOPOGRAPHY; URBAN AREA; VELOCITY; WEATHER; WIND; WINTER;

AIR POLLUTANTS; CITIES; DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEW ZEALAND; PARTICLE SIZE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; WIND;

AUSTRALASIA; CANTERBURY [SOUTH ISLAND]; CHRISTCHURCH; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND; WORLD;

EID: 26444528023     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2005.01.037     Document Type: Article

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