Climatic variability and its influence on ozone and PM pollution in 6 non-attainment regions in the United States

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 51, Issue , 2012, Pages 212-224

  Singh, Angadh ^a   Palazoglu, Ahmet ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Air quality; ENSO; Exceedance conducive (EC); Generalized Linear Models (GLM); PDO

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIABILITY; CLIMATIC EVENTS; CLIMATIC VARIABILITY; ENSO; EXCEEDANCE CONDUCIVE (EC); FAVORABLE CONDITIONS; GENERALIZED LINEAR MODEL; INFLUENCE OF ENSO; INTERANNUAL; LINEAR MODELING; METEOROLOGICAL CONDITION; NON-ATTAINMENT; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; PARTICULATE MATTER; PDO; POLLUTION EPISODES; REGIONAL POLLUTION; REGIONAL SCALE; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; TIME-SCALES;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATOLOGY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; POLLUTION;

OZONE;

OZONE;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CLIMATE VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; OZONE; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; TIMESCALE;

AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; AUTUMN; CLIMATE; OSCILLATION; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPRING; SUMMER; UNITED STATES; WINTER;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84863417268     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: 18732844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2012.01.020     Document Type: Article

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