A land use regression model for predicting ambient concentrations of nitrogen dioxide in hamilton, ontario, canada

Journal of the Air and Waste Management Association

Volumn 56, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1059-1069

  Sahsuvaroglu, Talar ^a   Arain, Altaf ^a   Kanaroglou, Pavlos ^a   Finkelstein, Norm ^a   Newbold, Bruce ^a   Jerrett, Michael ^a,b   Beckerman, Bernardo ^b   Brook, Jeffrey ^c   Finkelstein, Murray ^d   Gilbert, Nicolas L ^e  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^d MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^e HEALTH CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN DIOXIDE;

AIR POLLUTANT; ARTICLE; CANADA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FORECASTING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; AIR ANALYSIS; AIR MONITORING; AIR POLLUTION; AMBIENT AIR; CITY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; EXHAUST GAS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; HIGHWAY; INDUSTRIAL AREA; INDUSTRIALIZATION; LAND USE; PREDICTION; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; TRAFFIC; URBAN AREA; VALIDATION STUDY;

AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FORECASTING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; ONTARIO; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

AIR POLLUTION; ESTIMATION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NITROGEN OXIDES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; LAND USE REGRESSION (LUR) MODEL; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; TRAFFIC RELATED AIR POLLUTION;

LAND USE;

EID: 33749124132     PISSN: 10962247     EISSN: 21622906     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10473289.2006.10464542     Document Type: Article

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