Objective classification of air quality monitoring sites over Europe

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 47, Issue , 2012, Pages 111-123

  Joly, Mathieu ^a   Peuch, Vincent Henri ^b  

^a CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

^b EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Air quality; Classification; European AirBase; Monitoring; Pollutant; Representativeness

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY MONITORING; AIR QUALITY MONITORING NETWORKS; CHEMICAL DATA; CROSS VALIDATION; DATA SETS; EMISSION SOURCES; EUROPEAN AIRBASE; FIXED THRESHOLD; LAND COVER MAPS; LIMITED DATA; LINEAR DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; META INFORMATION; MODEL VERIFICATION; MONITORING SITES; POLLUTANT; POPULATION DENSITIES; REFERENCE SET; REPRESENTATIVENESS; URBAN SITE;

AIR QUALITY; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); CLIMATOLOGY; DATA PROCESSING; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; MONITORING; NITROGEN OXIDES; POLLUTION; SULFUR DIOXIDE; TIME SERIES;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; DATA ASSIMILATION; DATA SET; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; MODEL VALIDATION; OZONE; POLLUTION MONITORING; TIME SERIES; TOPOGRAPHY;

AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EUROPE; INDUSTRIALIZATION; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URBANIZATION; VALIDATION STUDY;

EUROPE;

EID: 84155171202     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: 18732844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2011.11.025     Document Type: Article

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