On the limits of the air pollution predictability: The case of the surface ozone at Athens, Greece

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 295-300

  Varotsos, Costas ^a   Efstathiou, Maria ^a   Tzanis, Chris ^a   Deligiorgi, Despina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Detrended fluctuation analysis; Historic observations; Long range correlations; Surface ozone; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

OZONE;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; HISTORICAL RECORD; OZONE; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PREDICTION; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIMESCALE; TWENTIETH CENTURY; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; URBANIZATION;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CITY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GREECE; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; TIME;

AIR POLLUTION; CITIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GREECE; OZONE; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; TIME FACTORS;

ATHENS [ATTICA]; ATTICA; GREECE;

EID: 84855260603     PISSN: 09441344     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-011-0555-8     Document Type: Article

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