Application of nonparametric regression methods to study the relationship between NO2 concentrations and local wind direction and speed at background sites

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 409, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1134-1144

  Donnelly, Aoife ^a   Misstear, Bruce ^a   Broderick, Brian ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Background concentrations; Meteorological parameters; Nitrogen dioxide; Nonparametric regression

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY MODELLING; BACKGROUND CONCENTRATION; BACKGROUND LEVEL; BASELINE MONITORING; CONCENTRATION VARIATION; DATA SETS; GAUSSIAN KERNEL FUNCTIONS; IRELAND; LONG TERM; METEOROLOGICAL PARAMETERS; MISSING DATA; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; NITROGEN DIOXIDES; NON-PARAMETRIC REGRESSION; POLLUTION SOURCES; PREDICTOR VARIABLES; SHORT TERM; WIND DIRECTIONS; WIND SPEED;

AIR QUALITY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENTS; NITROGEN; NITROGEN OXIDES; POLLUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPEED; WIND EFFECTS;

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS);

NITROGEN DIOXIDE;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; POLLUTANT SOURCE; POLLUTION MONITORING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WIND DIRECTION; WIND FORCING; WIND VELOCITY;

AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; FLOW RATE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KERNEL METHOD; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; POLLUTION MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WIND;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; ATMOSPHERE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; WIND;

IRELAND;

EID: 78751702508     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2010.12.001     Document Type: Article

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