Self-organized criticality of air pollution

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 43, Issue 21, 2009, Pages 3301-3304

  Shi, Kai ^a   Liu, Chun Qiong ^a  

^a JISHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Power law distribution; Sandpile model; Self organized criticality

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTANTS; DECAY COEFFICIENTS; DYNAMIC MECHANISM; NUMBER VALUES; POLLUTION SOURCES; POWER-LAW DISTRIBUTION; SAND-PILE MODELS; SANDPILE MODEL; SELF-ORGANIZED CRITICALITY; STATISTICAL CHARACTERISTICS; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

AIR QUALITY; CRITICALITY (NUCLEAR FISSION);

POLLUTION;

NITROGEN DIOXIDE; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

AIR ANALYSIS; AIR MONITORING; AIR POLLUTION; AIR POLLUTION INDICATOR; ARTICLE; DYNAMICS; INCIDENCE; MATHEMATICAL PHENOMENA; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTANT; POWER LOW DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAND; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; SHANGHAI;

EID: 66349110094     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2009.04.013     Document Type: Article

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