Distant source contributions to PM10 profile evaluated by SOM based cluster analysis of air mass trajectory sets

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 892-899

  Karaca, Ferhat ^a   Camci, Fatih ^a  

^a FATIH UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Artificial neural networks (ANN); Cluster analysis; HYSPLIT model; Long range transport

Indexed keywords

AIR FLOW; AIR MASS; AIR MASS TRAJECTORIES; ANTHROPOGENIC ACTIVITY; ARRIVAL TIME; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS (ANN); ATMOSPHERIC PARTICLES; BACKWARD TRAJECTORY; CLASSIFICATION TOOL; DISTANT SOURCE; DUST GENERATION; EPISODIC EVENTS; HYSPLIT MODEL; ISTANBUL; ISTANBUL , TURKEY; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; MEAN CONCENTRATIONS; MEAN VALUES; MEGACITIES; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRE-SELECTED;

AIR QUALITY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; SELF ORGANIZING MAPS; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS; TRAJECTORIES;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS;

AIR MASS; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARTICULATE MATTER; TRAJECTORY;

AFRICA; AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; AIRFLOW; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DUST; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

ISTANBUL [ISTANBUL (PRV)]; ISTANBUL [TURKEY]; TURKEY;

EID: 75249103549     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2009.12.006     Document Type: Article

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