From diagnosis to prognosis for forecasting air pollution using neural networks: Air pollution monitoring in Bilbao

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 622-637

  Ibarra Berastegi, Gabriel ^a   Elias, Ana ^a   Barona, Astrid ^a   Saenz, Jon ^a   Ezcurra, Agustin ^a   Diaz de Argandoña, Javier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

Air pollution forecasting; Air quality network; Bilbao; Fluid mechanics; Neural networks; Photochemistry; Traffic network

Indexed keywords

FLUID MECHANICS; NEURAL NETWORKS; PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTIONS; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

AIR POLLUTION FORECASTING; AIR QUALITY NETWORK; TRAFFIC NETWORK;

AIR POLLUTION;

AIR QUALITY; AIRBORNE SENSOR; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; DATABASE; FLUID MECHANICS; HISTORICAL RECORD; MODEL TEST; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; POLLUTION MONITORING; PREDICTION; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TRAFFIC EMISSION;

BASQUE COUNTRY; BILBAO; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN; VIZCAYA;

EID: 38149109707     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2007.09.003     Document Type: Article

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