Statistical behavior of carbon monoxide from vehicular exhausts in urban environments

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 526-535

  Gokhale, Sharad ^a   Khare, Mukesh ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GUWAHATI   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

Air pollutant concentration; Goodness of fit test; Heterogeneous traffic pattern; Log logistic distribution; Statistical distribution model

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DATA REDUCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; STATISTICAL MECHANICS; URBAN PLANNING;

AIR POLLUTANT CONCENTRATION; GOODNESS-OF-FIT TEST; HETEROGENEOUS TRAFFIC PATTERN; LOG LOGISTIC DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION MODEL;

CARBON MONOXIDE;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CARBON MONOXIDE; DATA PROCESSING; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLLUTION MONITORING; PREDICTION; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; TRAFFIC EMISSION; URBAN ATMOSPHERE;

ASIA; DELHI; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 33750453712     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2006.02.008     Document Type: Article

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