A new metric space incorporating radon-222 for generation of back trajectory clusters in atmospheric pollution studies

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 371-381

  Crawford, Jagoda ^a   Zahorowski, Wlodek ^a   Cohen, David D ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aerosol; Back trajectory cluster analysis; Radon

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; AIR POLLUTION; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; RADON; SET THEORY; STATISTICAL TESTS; TOPOLOGY; TRAJECTORIES;

AEROSOL MASSES; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTIONS; BACK TRAJECTORY CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CLUSTERING PERFORMANCES; DATA ANALYSIS; FINE PARTICLES; METRIC SPACES; PERFORMANCE TESTS; POLLUTION SOURCES; QUANTITATIVE CRITERIONS; SPATIAL VARIABLES; TRACE SPECIES;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS;

AEROSOL; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RADON ISOTOPE; TRAJECTORY;

EID: 57949100475     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2008.09.073     Document Type: Article

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