Inversely tracking indoor airborne particles to locate their release sources

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 55, Issue , 2012, Pages 328-338

  Zhang, Tengfei Tim ^a   Li, Hongzhu ^a   Wang, Shugang ^a  

^a DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Airborne particles; Indoor air pollution; Inverse modeling; Lagrangian reversibility; Quasi reversibility; Source prescription

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE PARTICLE; INVERSE MODELING; LAGRANGIAN-REVERSIBILITY; QUASI-REVERSIBILITY; SOURCE PRESCRIPTION;

INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; INVERSE PROBLEMS;

LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS;

AIRBORNE SURVEY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; DIFFUSION; EULERIAN ANALYSIS; HEALTH RISK; INDOOR AIR; INVERSE ANALYSIS; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOURCE PARAMETERS;

AIRBORNE PARTICLE; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DIFFUSION; ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 84859886115     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: 18732844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2012.03.066     Document Type: Article

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