Application of PM10>s Statistical Distribution to Air Quality Management-A Case Study in Central Greece

Water, Air, and Soil Pollution

Volumn 207, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 115-122

  Papanastasiou, Dimitris K ^a   Melas, Dimitris ^b  

^a Institute of Technology and Management of Agricultural Ecosystems   (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Air quality standards; Emission sources reduction; Lognormal distribution; PM10

Indexed keywords

ACID DEPOSITION; AIR QUALITY MANAGERS; AIR QUALITY REGULATIONS; AIR QUALITY STANDARD; AMBIENT AEROSOLS; CURRENT EMISSIONS; EMISSION SOURCES; EMISSION SOURCES REDUCTION; EUROPEAN UNION; HUMAN HEALTH EFFECTS; LOG-NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PM10 CONCENTRATION; RADIATION BALANCE; REGIONAL AREAS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STUDY AREAS; VISIBILITY REDUCTION;

AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; QUALITY CONTROL; QUALITY MANAGEMENT; RADIATION EFFECTS; REGULATORY COMPLIANCE; STANDARDS;

AIR QUALITY;

AEROSOL; AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CARBON EMISSION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FEASIBILITY STUDY; HEALTH RISK; INDEX METHOD; POLLUTION CONTROL; POLLUTION POLICY; RADIATION BALANCE; URBAN AREA;

AIR POLLUTION; AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; AIR QUALITY CONTROL; AIR QUALITY STANDARD; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GREECE; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

GREECE; MAGNESIA; THESSALY; VOLOS;

EID: 77249134994     PISSN: 00496979     EISSN: 15732932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11270-009-0123-8     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. MJ Assael M Delaki KE Kakosimos 2008 Applying the OSPM model to the calculation of PM10 concentration levels in the historical centre of the city of Thessaloniki Atmospheric Environment 42 65 77 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2007.09.029 1:CAS:528:DC%2BD2sXhsVGksr%2FE (Pubitemid 350298034)
2. M Boy M Kulmala 2002 Influence of spectral solar irradiance on the formation of new particles in the continental boundary layer Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 2 1317 1350
3. I Colbeck C Meng-Chen K Eleftheriadis 2002 Formation and transport of atmospheric aerosol over Athens, Greece Water, Air, & Soil Pollution. Focus 2 223 235 10.1023/A:1021335401558 1:CAS:528:DC%2BD3sXhsFyrsbY%3D
4. DW Dockery J Schwartz JD Spengler 1992 Air pollution and daily mortality: Association with particulates and acid aerosols Environmental Research 59 362 373 10.1016/S0013-9351(05)80042-8 1:CAS:528:DyaK3sXmsFyjsA%3D%3D (Pubitemid 23052300)
5. PG Georgopoulos JH Seinfeld 1982 Statistical distribution of air pollutant concentration Environmental Science & Technology 16 401A 416A 10.1021/es00101a002 1:CAS:528:DyaL38XkslOqtrc%3D
6. GM Giavis HD Kambezidis SP Lykoudis 2009 Frequency distribution of particulate matter (PM10) in urban environments International Journal of Environment and Pollution 36 1-3 99 109 10.1504/IJEP.2009.021819 1:CAS:528:DC%2BD1MXhsleks7w%3D
7. RC Gwynn RT Burnett GD Thurston 2000 A time-series analysis of acidic particulate matter and daily mortality and morbidity in the Buffalo, New York, region Environmental Health Perspectives 108 125 133 10.2307/3454510 1:STN:280:DC%2BD3c7itlymuw%3D%3D
8. B Hennemuth A Lammert 2006 Determination of the atmospheric boundary layer height from radiosonde and lidar backscatter Boundary-Layer Meteorology 120 1 181 200 10.1007/s10546-005-9035-3 (Pubitemid 44269779)
9. Johnson, N. L., & Kotz, S. (1970). Continuous univariate distributions. New York: Wiley.
10. HD Kambezidis A Peppes D Melas 1995 An experimental study in Athens area under sea breeze conditions Atmospheric Research 36 139 156 10.1016/0169- 8095(94)00031-8
11. HD Kan BH Chen 2004 Statistical distributions of ambient air pollutants in Shanghai, China Biomedical and Environmental Sciences 17 366 372
12. AS Kao SK Friedlander 1995 Frequency distributions of PM10 chemical components and their sources Environmental Science & Technology 29 19 28 10.1021/es00001a003 1:CAS:528:DyaK2MXisVymsLc%3D
13. 2 and particulate matter on mortality in 12 European cities: results from time series data from the APHEA project British Medical Journal 314 1658 1663
14. A Lammert J Bösenberg 2006 Determination of the convective boundary-layer height with laser remote sensing Boundary-Layer Meteorology 119 159 170 10.1007/s10546-005-9020-x (Pubitemid 43870584)
15. HC Lu 2002 The statistical characters of PM10 concentration in Taiwan area Atmospheric Environment 36 491 502 10.1016/S1352-2310(01)00245-X 1:CAS:528:DC%2BD38XjvVGh (Pubitemid 34019145)
16. HC Lu 2003 Comparisons of statistical characteristics of air pollutants in Taiwan by frequency distribution Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association 53 608 616 1:CAS:528:DC%2BD3sXktVOrsLw%3D
17. HC Lu GC Fang 2003 Predicting exceedances of a critical PM10 concentration-a case study in Taiwan Atmospheric Environment 37 3491 3499 10.1016/S1352-2310(03)00453-9 1:CAS:528:DC%2BD3sXltFClsrg%3D (Pubitemid 36808895)
18. CCY Ma M Iqbal 1984 Statistical comparison of solar radiation correlations-monthly average global and diffuse radiation on horizontal surfaces Solar Energy 33 143 148 10.1016/0038-092X(84)90231-7 (Pubitemid 15457553)
19. DT Mage WR Ott 1984 An evaluation of the method of fractiles, moments and maximum likelihood for estimating parameters when sampling air quality data from a stationary lognormal distribution Atmospheric Environment 18 163 171 10.1016/0004-6981(84)90239-7 (Pubitemid 14130955)
20. D Melas I Kioutsioukis I Ziomas 2000 Neural network model for predicting peak photochemical pollutant levels Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association 50 4 495 501 1:STN:280:DC%2BD3c3kslOhtg%3D%3D
21. BD Ostro 1990 Associations between morbidity and alternative measures of particulate matter Risk Analysis 10 421 427 10.1111/j.1539-6924.1990.tb00525.x 1:STN:280:DyaK3M%2Fks12qtw%3D%3D
22. BD Ostro L Chestnut N Vichit-Vadakan A Laixuthai 1999a The impact of particulate matter on daily mortality in Bangkok, Thailand Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association 49 100 107 1:STN:280:DC%2BD3cvltVSjsQ%3D%3D
23. BD Ostro GS Eskeland JM Sanchez T Feyzioglou 1999b Air pollution and health effects: A study of medical visits among children in Santiago, Chile Environmental Health Perspectives 107 69 73 10.2307/3434291 1:STN:280: DyaK1M%2FptFGitg%3D%3D
24. WRA Ott 1990 Physical explanation of the lognormality of pollutant concentrations Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association 40 1378 1383 1:CAS:528:DyaK3MXitlCjurw%3D
25. DK Papanastasiou D Melas 2009 Climatology and impact on air quality of sea breeze in an urban coastal environment International Journal of Climatology 29 305 315 10.1002/joc.1707
26. DK Papanastasiou D Melas 2009 Statistical characteristics of ozone and PM10 levels in a medium sized Mediterranean city International Journal of Environment & Pollution 36 1/2/3 127 138 10.1504/IJEP.2009.021821 1:CAS:528:DC%2BD1MXhsleks7o%3D
27. Seinfeld, J. H., & Pandis, S. N. (1998). Atmospheric chemistry and physics. From air pollution to climate change. New York: Wiley.
28. RJ Stone 1993 Improved statistical procedure for the evaluation of solar radiation estimation models Solar Energy 5 4 289 291 10.1016/0038-092X(93)90124- 7 (Pubitemid 23707661)
29. JA Taylor AJ Jakeman RW Simpson 1986 Modeling distributions of air pollutant concentrations. I. Identification of statistical models Atmospheric Environment 20 1781 1789 10.1016/0004-6981(86)90127-7 1:CAS:528: DyaL28XlvFKntLs%3D
30. S Vardoulakis P Kassomenos 2008 Sources and factors affecting PM10 levels in two European cities: Implications for local air quality management Atmospheric Environment 42 3949 3963 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2006.12.021 1:CAS:528:DC%2BD1cXlvFKkurs%3D (Pubitemid 351680408)
31. LJ Welty SL Zeger 2005 Are the acute effects of particulate matter on mortality in the national morbidity, mortality, and air pollution study the result of inadequate control for weather and season? A sensitivity analysis using flexible distributed Lag models American Journal of Epidemiology 162 80 88 10.1093/aje/kwi157 (Pubitemid 40885004)