Comparison of two data assimilation methods for assessing PM10 exceedances on the European scale

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 42, Issue 30, 2008, Pages 7122-7134

  Denby, Bruce ^a   Schaap, Martijn ^b   Segers, Arjo ^b   Builtjes, Peter ^b   Horálek, Jan ^c  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR AIR RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b TNO   (Netherlands)

^c CZECH HYDROMETEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Air quality; Data assimilation; Ensemble Kalman filter; Kriging; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER; KRIGING; UNCERTAINTY;

PERMANENT MAGNETS;

AIR QUALITY; ANNUAL VARIATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA ASSIMILATION; DATABASE; DIURNAL VARIATION; INTERPOLATION; KALMAN FILTER; KRIGING; MODEL VALIDATION; PARTICULATE MATTER; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTERING METHOD; EUROPE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 51349106825     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2008.05.058     Document Type: Article

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