Performance evaluation of air quality dispersion models at urban intersection of an Indian city: A case study of Delhi city

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 157, Issue , 2012, Pages 249-260

  Khare, M ^a   Nagendra, S ^b   Gulia, S ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

Author keywords

ADMS urban; AERMOD; Air quality models; CALINE4; DFLSM; GFLSM; ISCST3; Statistical descriptors and model evaluation; Vehicular pollution

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CARBON MONOXIDE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EXHAUST EMISSION; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARTICULATE MATTER; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; POLLUTION CONTROL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TOPOGRAPHY; TRAFFIC EMISSION; URBAN AREA;

DELHI; INDIA;

EID: 84865747272     PISSN: 17433541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2495/AIR120221     Document Type: Article

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