Detecting and characterising small changes in urban nitrogen dioxide concentrations

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 41, Issue 22, 2007, Pages 4723-4733

  Carslaw, David C ^a   Carslaw, Nicola ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Change point; Meteorological normalisation; Primary nitrogen dioxide; Structural change; Trend

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY; NITROGEN OXIDES;

GENERALIZED ADDITIVE MODELS (GAM); METEOROLOGICAL NORMALISATION; PRIMARY NITROGEN DIOXIDE;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY;

NITROGEN DIOXIDE;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DETECTION METHOD; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; URBAN AREA;

AIR MONITORING; AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; EQUIPMENT; GENERALIZED ADDITIVE MODEL; HIGHWAY; METEOROLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; UNITED KINGDOM; URBAN AREA;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; LONDON [ENGLAND]; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 34249337698     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2007.03.034     Document Type: Article

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