Airborne pollen in three European cities: Detection of atmospheric circulation pathways by applying three-dimensional clustering of backward trajectories

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 115, Issue 24, 2010, Pages

  Makra, László ^a   Sánta, Tamás ^a   Matyasovszky, István ^b   Damialis, Athanasios ^c   Karatzas, Kostas ^c   Bergmann, Karl Christian ^d   Vokou, Despoina ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

^b EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^c ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^d CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; METEOROLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TRAJECTORIES;

AIRBORNE POLLENS; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; BACKWARD TRAJECTORY; CARPATHIAN BASIN; CENTRAL EUROPE; D-FUNCTION; HUNGARY; HYSPLIT MODEL; K-MEANS CLUSTERING ALGORITHM; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; MAHALANOBIS METRIC; PEAK VALUES; POACEAE; SOURCE AREA; STATISTICAL INDICES; THESSALONIKI; WESTERN EUROPE;

HEALTH RISKS;

ALGORITHM; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DETECTION METHOD; DICOTYLEDON; GRASS; HEALTH RISK; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; PARTICULATE FLUX; POLLEN; TRAJECTORY;

EUROPE;

AMBROSIA; POACEAE; THESSALONIKI; URTICACEAE;

EID: 79251571148     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JD014743     Document Type: Article

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