Validation of trajectory statistical methods

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 41, Issue 39, 2007, Pages 8846-8856

  Scheifinger, Helfried ^a   Kaiser, August ^a  

^a ZAMG Zentralanstalt fuer Meteorologie und Geodynamik   (Austria)

Author keywords

Concentration field method; Potential source contribution function; Redistributed concentration field method; Source receptor relationship; Validation

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION FIELD METHOD; POTENTIAL SOURCE CONTRIBUTION FUNCTION; REDISTRIBUTED CONCENTRATION FIELD METHOD; SOURCE-RECEPTOR RELATIONSHIP; VALIDATION;

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); EXPERIMENTS; PAPER PRODUCTS; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); RESTORATION; TRAJECTORIES;

STATISTICS;

SULFUR DIOXIDE; TRACE ELEMENT;

EMISSION INVENTORY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SULFUR DIOXIDE; TRANSPORT PROCESS;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION FIELD METHOD; DISPERSION; LITERATURE; POTENTIAL SOURCE CONTRIBUTION FUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REDISTRIBUTED CONCENTRATION FIELD METHOD; SEPARATION TECHNIQUE; STATISTICS; TRANSPORT KINETICS; VALIDATION STUDY;

EID: 36849043749     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2007.08.034     Document Type: Article

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