An optimal spatial configuration of sample sites for air pollution monitoring

Journal of the Air and Waste Management Association

Volumn 59, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1308-1316

  Kumar, Naresh ^a   Nixon, Veronica ^a   Sinha, Kaushik ^b   Jiang, Xiaosen ^a   Ziegenhorn, Sarah ^c   Peters, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MACALESTER COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; SITE SELECTION;

AERODYNAMIC DIAMETERS; AIR POLLUTION MONITORING; AIRBORNE PARTICULATE; AMBIENT AIR POLLUTION; DETERMINISTIC APPROACH; INDOOR AND OUTDOOR AIRS; SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATIONS; SPATIAL CONFIGURATION;

POLLUTION DETECTION;

AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; AIR QUALITY CONTROL; AIR SAMPLING; AIRBORNE PARTICLE; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPOSURE VARIABLE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTION MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLE SIZE; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA; AIR POLLUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EVALUATION; METHODOLOGY;

AIR POLLUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; IOWA; PARTICULATE MATTER;

EID: 73349131428     PISSN: 10962247     EISSN: 21622906     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3155/1047-3289.59.11.1308     Document Type: Article

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