The impact of spatial correlation and incommensurability on model evaluation

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1204-1217

  Swall, Jenise L ^a   Foley, Kristen M ^a  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Air quality modeling; Block kriging; Spatial interpolation; Statistical simulation

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY MODELS; BLOCK KRIGING; GRID CELLS; MODEL EVALUATIONS; MODEL OUTPUTS; NUMBER OF GRIDS; PRACTICAL IMPORTANCES; SOME APPLICATIONS; SPATIAL CORRELATION STRUCTURES; SPATIAL CORRELATIONS; SPATIAL INTERPOLATION; STANDARD EVALUATIONS; STATISTICAL SIMULATION;

AIR QUALITY; INTERPOLATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

QUALITY CONTROL;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; KRIGING; MODEL TEST; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 58249127908     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2008.10.057     Document Type: Article

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