Estimated accuracy of three common trajectory statistical methods

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 45, Issue 31, 2011, Pages 5425-5430

  Kabashnikov, Vitaliy P ^a   Chaikovsky, Anatoli P ^a   Kucsera, Tom L ^b   Metelskaya, Natalia S ^a  

^a B I STEPANOV INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Belarus)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric trace substance; Back trajectories; Source reconstruction; Trajectory statistical method

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TRACES; BACK TRAJECTORIES; CONCENTRATION FIELDS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CORRELATION VALUE; DATA SETS; DECAY TIME; OPTIMAL DOMAIN; OPTIMUM CONDITIONS; POTENTIAL SOURCE CONTRIBUTION FUNCTION; POTENTIAL SOURCES; QUANTITATIVE MEASURES; RANK ORDER; REAL WORLD EXPERIMENT; SOURCE DISTRIBUTION; SOURCE RECONSTRUCTION; STATISTICAL ESTIMATION; VIRTUAL SOURCES;

CORRELATION METHODS; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; OPTIMIZATION; TRAJECTORIES;

STATISTICS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; DATA SET; PARTICLE SIZE; RECONSTRUCTION; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TRACE ELEMENT; TRAJECTORY;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CONCENTRATION FIELD; CONCENTRATION WEIGHTED TRAJECTORY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; GEOGRAPHY; POLLUTANT; POTENTIAL SOURCE CONTRIBUTION FUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 80051473364     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: 18732844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2011.07.006     Document Type: Article

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