Monitoring the long-range transport effects on urban PM10 levels using 3D clusters of backward trajectories

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 45, Issue 16, 2011, Pages 2630-2641

  Makra, László ^a   Matyasovszky, István ^b   Guba, Zoltán ^a   Karatzas, Kostas ^c   Anttila, Pia ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

^b EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^c ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^d FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Backward trajectories; Cluster analysis; Long range pM10 transport; Mahalanobis metric

Indexed keywords

3D CLUSTERS; AFRICAN DUST; AIR CURRENTS; AIR MASS; BACKWARD TRAJECTORY; CARPATHIAN BASIN; CASPIAN SEA; CENTRAL EUROPE; EASTERN EUROPE; HELSINKI; HUNGARY; HYSPLIT MODEL; K-MEANS CLUSTERING ALGORITHM; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; LONG-RANGE PM10 TRANSPORT; MAHALANOBIS METRIC; PARTICULATE LEVELS; PARTICULATE MATTER; PM10 CONCENTRATION; SIMPLE APPROACH; SOUTHERN EUROPE; STATISTICAL INDICES; THESSALONIKI; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D); WESTERN EUROPE;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; DUST; TRAJECTORIES;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

AIR MASS; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; LONG-TERM CHANGE; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; DESERT; EUROPE; GREECE; HUNGARY; LATITUDE; MASS; MONITORING; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EUROPE;

THESSALONIKI;

EID: 79954603829     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2011.02.068     Document Type: Article

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