Influence of indoor transport and mixing time scales on the performance of sensor systems for characterizing contaminant releases

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 41, Issue 40, 2007, Pages 9530-9542

  Sreedharan, Priya ^a,b   Sohn, Michael D ^a   Nazaroff, William W ^a,c   Gadgil, Ashok J ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c 109 McLaughlin Hall   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayes Monte Carlo; Buildings; Contaminant transport; Inverse problem; Multizone model; Sensor system; Time scales

Indexed keywords

IMPURITIES; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SENSOR DATA FUSION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

BAYES MONTE CARLO; CONTAMINANT TRANSPORT; MULTIZONE MODELS; SENSOR SYSTEMS; TIME SCALES;

SENSORS;

TRACER;

ALGORITHM; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BUILDING CONSTRUCTION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; INVERSE PROBLEM; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; SENSOR; TIMESCALE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

AIR POLLUTION; ALGORITHM; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSOR; TIME; TRANSPORT KINETICS;

EID: 36348991317     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2007.08.039     Document Type: Article

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