Combining continuous near-road monitoring and inverse modeling to isolate the effect of highway expansion on a school in Las Vegas

Atmospheric Pollution Research

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 105-111

  Vedantham, Ram ^a   Norris, Gary ^a   Brown, Steven G ^b   Roberts, Paul ^b  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b SONOMA TECHNOLOGY INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental forensics; Inverse model; Near road; Sector apportionment; Sustained Wind Incidence Method

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875243268     PISSN: 13091042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5094/APR.2012.010     Document Type: Article

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