An assessment of meteorological effects on air quality in Windsor, Ontario, Canada - Sensitivity to temporal modeling resolution

Journal of Environmental Informatics

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 45-50

  Anastassopoulos, A ^a   Nguyen, S ^a   Xu, X ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

Author keywords

Air mass; Air pollution; Air quality; Environmental health; Modeling; Resolution; Sensitivity; Source receptor relationship; Transboundary air pollution

Indexed keywords

AIR MASS; AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; HEALTH POLICY; METEOROLOGY; POLICY MAKING; POLLUTANT SOURCE; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; PUBLIC HEALTH; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TRAJECTORY;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; ONTARIO [CANADA]; WINDSOR;

EID: 45549087993     PISSN: 17262135     EISSN: 16848799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3808/jei.200800110     Document Type: Article

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