Air-pollution modelling in an urban area: Correlating turbulent diffusion coefficients by means of an artificial neural network approach

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 109-125

  Perez Roa R ^a   Castro, J ^a   Jorquera, H ^a   Perez Correa J R ^a   Vesovic, V ^b  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Artificial neural network; Model performance; Turbulent transport; Urban air pollution; Vertical eddy diffusivity

Indexed keywords

CARBON MONOXIDE; DIFFUSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY; NEURAL NETWORKS; TURBULENCE;

MODEL PERFORMANCE; TURBULENT TRANSPORT; URBAN AIR POLLUTION; VERTICAL EDDY DIFFUSIVITY;

AIR POLLUTION;

CARBON MONOXIDE;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; EMISSION INVENTORY; TURBULENT DIFFUSION; URBAN ATMOSPHERE;

AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CHILE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DISPERSION; MEASUREMENT; METEOROLOGY; PERFORMANCE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; SUMMER; TURBULENT FLOW; URBAN AREA;

EID: 28844434949     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2005.09.032     Document Type: Article

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