A merging algorithm for aerosol size distribution from multiple instruments

Water, Air, and Soil Pollution

Volumn 199, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 219-233

  Ondracek J ^a,b   Zdimal V ^b   Smolik J ^b   Lazaridis, M ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PROCESS FUNDAMENTALS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Aerosols; Merging particle size distribution; Multilognormal model

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMIC DIAMETERS; AERODYNAMIC PARTICLE SIZER; AEROSOL PARTICLE SIZE DISTRIBUTION; AEROSOL SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS; CZECH REPUBLIC; DATA SETS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; GEOMETRIC MEAN; GEOMETRIC STANDARD DEVIATIONS; INDOOR/OUTDOOR; LOG-NORMAL; MEASUREMENT CAMPAIGN; MERGING ALGORITHMS; MULTILOGNORMAL MODEL; MULTIPLE INSTRUMENTS; PARTICLE MOBILITY; PARTICLE NUMBER CONCENTRATION; SCANNING MOBILITY PARTICLE SIZER; SIMPLE ALGORITHM;

AERODYNAMICS; ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; PARTICLE SIZE; SET THEORY; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

MERGING;

AERODYNAMICS; ALGORITHM; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARTICLE MOTION; PARTICLE SIZE; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

AEROSOL; ALGORITHM; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DATA ANALYSIS; DYNAMICS; GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; MOBILIZATION; PARTICLE SIZE;

CENTRAL EUROPE; CZECH REPUBLIC; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; LOMBARDY; MILAN; MILANO [LOMBARDY]; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; OSLO [NORWAY]; PRAGUE; SCANDINAVIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 67349158648     PISSN: 00496979     EISSN: 15732932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11270-008-9873-y     Document Type: Article

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