Sensitivity analysis of AERMOD in modeling local air quality under different model options

2010 4th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering, iCBBE 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Zou, Bin ^a   Zeng, Yongnian ^a   Liu, Huimin ^a   Zhang, Honghui ^a   Qiu, Yonghong ^a   Zhan, Benjamin F ^b  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

AERMOD; Air dispersion modeling; Exposure assessment; Model sensitivity; Statistical evaluation

Indexed keywords

AERMOD; AIR DISPERSION MODELING; EXPOSURE ASSESSMENT; MODEL SENSITIVITY; STATISTICAL EVALUATION;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; BIOINFORMATICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FUNCTION EVALUATION; LANDFORMS; METEOROLOGY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

DISPERSIONS;

EID: 77956148315     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICBBE.2010.5517172     Document Type: Conference Paper

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