A method for locating influential pollution sources and estimating their contributions

Environmental Modeling and Assessment

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 129-136

  Lin, Ching Ho ^a   Wu, Yee Lin ^b   Chang, Ken Hui ^c   Lai, Chin Hsing ^a  

^a FOOYIN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL YUNLIN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Air trajectory; Influential source; SO2; Source contribution; Transport

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; POWER PLANTS; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

AIR TRAJECTORIES; CHEMICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; INFLUENTIAL SOURCE; MONITORING STATIONS; POLLUTANT CONCENTRATION; POLLUTION SOURCES; SOURCE CONTRIBUTIONS; TRANSPORT;

POLLUTION;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ESTIMATION METHOD; POINT SOURCE POLLUTION; POLLUTANT SOURCE; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

TAIWAN;

EID: 3543044451     PISSN: 14202026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:ENMO.0000032093.26205.68     Document Type: Article

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