Trends of primary and secondary pollutant concentrations in Finland in 1994-2007

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 30-41

  Anttila, Pia ^a   Tuovinen, Juha Pekka ^a  

^a FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Air quality monitoring; Autoregressive moving average (ARMA) errors; Generalized least squares (GLS) regression; Long term trend

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; DATA REDUCTION; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); NITROGEN OXIDES; TIME SERIES;

AIR QUALITY MONITORING; ATMOSPHERIC CONCENTRATION; AUTOREGRESSIVE MOVING AVERAGE; GENERALIZED LEAST SQUARES REGRESSIONS; LONG-TERM TREND; PARTICULATE POLLUTANTS; PM10 CONCENTRATION; POLLUTANT CONCENTRATION;

URBAN GROWTH;

CARBON MONOXIDE; NITROGEN OXIDE; OZONE; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ERROR ANALYSIS; INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; PARTICLE SIZE; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; RURAL AREA; TREND ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA; URBAN ATMOSPHERE;

AIR MONITORING; AIR PARTICLE CONTROL; AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; AIR QUALITY STANDARD; AIR SAMPLING; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); FINLAND; INDUSTRIAL AREA; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; ION TRANSPORT; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREND STUDY; URBAN AREA;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FINLAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 70849089429     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2009.09.041     Document Type: Article

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