Forecasting sudden changes in environmental pollution patterns

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 4738-4743

  Olascoaga, María J ^a   Haller, George ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRACER;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; ASH; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FLOW RATE; FORECASTING; LAGRANGIAN COHERENT STRUCTURE; METHODOLOGY; MEXICO; OIL SPILL; PLUME; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; FORECASTING; GEOGRAPHY; GULF OF MEXICO; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PETROLEUM POLLUTION; SEAWATER;

EID: 84859474067     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1118574109     Document Type: Article

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