Assessment of potential long-range transport of particulate air pollution using trajectory modeling and monitoring data

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 3-17

  Pongkiatkul, Prapat ^a   Kim Oanh, Nguyen Thi ^a  

^a ASIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Back trajectory; Bangkok; Clustering; Fine and coarse particulate matter; Long range transport

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

LONG-RANGE TRANSPORT; POTENTIAL SOURCE CONTRIBUTION FUNCTION;

PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER);

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTANT SOURCE; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; POLLUTION MONITORING; REGIONAL CLIMATE; TRAFFIC EMISSION;

ASIA; BANGKOK; CENTRAL REGION [THAILAND]; EURASIA; GULF OF THAILAND; KRUNG THEP MAHANAKHON; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH CHINA SEA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; THAILAND;

EID: 34249941853     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2006.10.003     Document Type: Article

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