Influence of source-sensor geometry on multi-source emission rate estimates

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 42, Issue 32, 2008, Pages 7373-7383

  Crenna, B P ^a   Flesch, T K ^a   Wilson, J D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Condition number; Dispersion modeling; Emission rates; Inverse dispersion; Multiple sources

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; ATMOSPHERICS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DISPERSION (WAVES); NUMBER THEORY; PARTICULATE EMISSIONS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SURFACE STRUCTURE;

ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS; BACKGROUND CONCENTRATION; CONCENTRATION DATA; CONCENTRATION MEASUREMENTS; CONDITION NUMBER; DISPERSION MODELING; DISPERSION MODELLING; EMISSION RATES; FIELD STUDIES; INVERSE DISPERSION; MODEL ERRORS; MULTI-SOURCE; MULTIPLE SOURCES; NUMERICAL DISPERSIONS; OPTIMAL SENSORS; SENSOR GEOMETRIES; SENSOR PLACEMENT; SOURCE DISTRIBUTIONS; SURFACE LAYERING; WIND DIRECTIONS;

SENSORS;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISPERSION; EMISSION; ESTIMATION METHOD; GEOMETRY; NUMERICAL MODEL; WIND DIRECTION;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; FIELD EMISSION; GEOMETRY; MEASUREMENT ERROR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSOR; SIGNAL DETECTION;

EID: 52949087913     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2008.06.019     Document Type: Article

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