An integrated statistical approach for evaluating the exceedence of criteria pollutants in the ambient air of megacity Delhi

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 70, Issue , 2013, Pages 7-17

  Sharma, Pragati ^a   Sharma, Prateek ^b   Jain, Suresh ^b   Kumar, Prashant ^c  

^a BHARATI VIDYAPEETH S COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING   (India)

^b TERI UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Air quality standards; Ambient air quality data; Distributional models; Megacity Delhi; Model identification and estimation; Probability density function

Indexed keywords

10 MICRON; AIR QUALITY COMPLIANCE; AMBIENT AIR; AMBIENT AIR QUALITY; CONTINUOUS MONITORING; CRITERIA AIR POLLUTANTS; DISTRIBUTIONAL MODELS; EMISSION REDUCTION; MANDATORY REQUIREMENT; MEGACITIES; MODEL IDENTIFICATION; MONITORING STATIONS; NATIONAL AMBIENT AIR QUALITY STANDARDS; NITROGEN DIOXIDES; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTION LEVEL; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION (PDF); RETURN PERIODS; STATISTICAL APPROACH; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTERS;

AIR QUALITY; AIR QUALITY STANDARDS; EMISSION CONTROL; NITROGEN OXIDES; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); POLLUTION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; QUALITY CONTROL; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

NITROGEN DIOXIDE; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

AIR QUALITY; AMBIENT AIR; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; COMPLIANCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EMISSION CONTROL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESTIMATION METHOD; INTEGRATED APPROACH; MEGACITY; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTANT; POLLUTANT SOURCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SULFUR DIOXIDE; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER;

AIR POLLUTANT; AIR QUALITY; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; INDIA; PARTICULATE MATTER; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER;

DELHI; INDIA;

EID: 84873257783     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: 18732844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2013.01.004     Document Type: Article

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