Characterization of atmospheric contaminant sources using adaptive evolutionary algorithms

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 44, Issue 31, 2010, Pages 3787-3796

  Cervone, Guido ^a   Franzese, Pasquale ^a   Grajdeanu, Adrian ^b  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b George Mason University   (United States)

Author keywords

Dispersion modeling; Evolutionary algorithms; Monte Carlo; Source characterization

Indexed keywords

AES ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC CONTAMINANTS; ATMOSPHERIC STABILITY CLASS; DISPERSION MODELING; DISPERSION SIMULATIONS; EVOLUTIONARY STRATEGIES; FIELD EXPERIMENT; GAUSSIAN PLUME MODELS; GROUND CONCENTRATIONS; GROUND MEASUREMENTS; MASS EMISSIONS; MONTE CARLO; PRAIRIE GRASS; SOURCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOURCE CHARACTERIZATION; WIND DIRECTIONS;

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; AIR POLLUTION; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; DISPERSIONS; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS;

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; ALGORITHM; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ATMOSPHERIC PLUME; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CANONICAL ANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISPERSION; ERROR ANALYSIS; GAUSSIAN METHOD; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLLUTANT SOURCE; PRAIRIE; WIND DIRECTION;

ARTICLE; DISPERSION; FIELD EMISSION; MEDICAL ERROR; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NONHUMAN; POLLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 77955843573     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2010.06.046     Document Type: Article

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