Performance of kriging and EWPM for relative air pollution exposure risk assessment

International Journal of Environmental Research

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 769-778

  Zou, B ^a   Zhan, F B ^b,c   Zeng, Y ^a   Yorke, Ch ^c   Liu, X ^c  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental modeling; Environmental pollution; Exposure estimates; GIS; Spatial analysis

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BENCHMARKING; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; INTERPOLATION; KRIGING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

DALLAS; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79960307160     PISSN: 17356865     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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