Identification of long-range aerosol transport patterns to Toronto via classification of back trajectories by cluster analysis and neural network techniques

Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 26-33

  Owega, Sandy ^a   Khan, Badi Uz Zaman ^a   Evans, Greg J ^a   Jervis, Robert E ^a   Fila, Mike ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Atmospheric aerosol; Fine particulate matter; Long distance transport; Ontario

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; AIR POLLUTION; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CANADA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 33744531823     PISSN: 01697439     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemolab.2005.12.009     Document Type: Article

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