Neural network forecasting of air pollutants hourly concentrations using optimised temporal averages of meteorological variables and pollutant concentrations

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 43, Issue 35, 2009, Pages 5588-5596

  Hrust, Lovro ^a   Klaić, Zvjezdana Bencetić ^b   Križan, Josip ^a   Antonić, Oleg ^c   Hercog, Predrag ^d  

^a Department of Natural Resources Management   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^c RUDER BO KOVI INSTITUTE   (Croatia)

^d Zagreb Institute of Public Health   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Air quality forecasting; Model input selection; Multi layer perceptron neural networks

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR QUALITY FORECASTING; CITY OF ZAGREB; COEFFICIENT OF CORRELATION; CROATIA; DATA SETS; FORECASTING MODELS; INDEX OF AGREEMENTS; INPUT DATAS; INPUT VARIABLES; METEOROLOGICAL VARIABLES; MOVING AVERAGES; MULTI LAYER PERCEPTRON; MULTI-LAYER PERCEPTRON NEURAL NETWORKS; NUMERICAL WEATHER FORECASTS; POLLUTANT CONCENTRATION; REGRESSION MODEL; RELATIVE IMPORTANCE; RESIDENTIAL AREAS; UNIVARIATE;

AIR QUALITY; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); MODEL BUILDINGS; NEURAL NETWORKS; POLLUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

CARBON MONOXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE; OZONE;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AIR QUALITY; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CHEMICAL POLLUTANT; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CORRELATION; FORECASTING METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ACCURACY; AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CROATIA; FORECASTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; METEOROLOGY; PARTICULATE MATTER; PERCEPTRON; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESIDENTIAL AREA; URBAN AREA; WEATHER;

CROATIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; ZAGREB;

EID: 70449405008     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2009.07.048     Document Type: Article

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