Landfill gas emission prediction using Voronoi diagrams and importance sampling

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1223-1232

  Mackie, K R ^a   Cooper, C D ^a  

^a University of Central Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

Air dispersion modeling; Delaunay tessellation; Kriging; Least squares; MSW landfill; Voronoi diagram

Indexed keywords

AIR DISPERSION MODELING; DELAUNAY TESSELLATION; KRIGING; LEAST SQUARES; MSW LANDFILL; VORONOI DIAGRAM;

CURVE FITTING; DISPERSION (WAVES); DISPERSIONS; GAS EMISSIONS; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; LAND FILL; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; LEAKAGE (FLUID); LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; METHANE; PARTICULATE EMISSIONS; PETROLEUM REFINING; SOLID WASTES; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

WASTE DISPOSAL;

AIR SAMPLING; AMBIENT AIR; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; DIAGRAM; DISPERSION; EMISSION INVENTORY; GAUSSIAN METHOD; GREENHOUSE GAS; KRIGING; LANDFILL; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; METHANE; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; POINT SOURCE POLLUTION; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

EID: 67349261227     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2009.04.003     Document Type: Article

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