Evaluation and application of a statistical model for assessment of long-range transported proportion of PM2.5 in the United Kingdom and in Finland

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 42, Issue 17, 2008, Pages 3980-3991

  Kukkonen, Jaakko ^a   Sokhi, Ranjeet ^b   Luhana, Lakhu ^b   Härkönen, Jari ^a   Salmi, Timo ^a   Sofiev, Mikhail ^a   Karppinen, Ari ^a  

^a FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

EMEP; Ionic component; Long range transport; Model; PM2.5

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); CORRELATION METHODS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MECHANICS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

IONIC COMPONENTS; LONG-RANGE TRANSPORT; STATISTICAL CORRELATIONS; STATISTICAL MODELS;

PARTICULATE EMISSIONS;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; ESTIMATION METHOD; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; PARTICULATE MATTER; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AIR POLLUTANT; ARTICLE; FINLAND; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED KINGDOM;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FINLAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 43549093058     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2007.02.036     Document Type: Article

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