Carbon dioxide at an unpolluted site analysed with the smoothing kernel method and skewed distributions

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 456-457, Issue , 2013, Pages 239-245

  Pérez, Isidro A ^a   Sánchez, M Luisa ^a   García, M Ángeles ^a   Pardo, Nuria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Distribution fitting; Kernel regression; Rural CO2; Triangular distribution

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; ANALYTICAL PROCEDURE; DIRECTIONAL ANALYSIS; DISTRIBUTION FITTING; DISTRIBUTION SYMMETRY; KERNEL REGRESSION; NUMERICAL PROCEDURES; TRIANGULAR DISTRIBUTION;

GRAPHIC METHODS; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); HISTOGRAM; METHODOLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; RURAL AREA; WEIBULL THEORY; WIND DIRECTION;

AIR ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; CARBON DIOXIDE MEASUREMENT; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTRIBUTION FITTING; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; HISTOGRAM; KERNEL METHOD; MACHINE LEARNING; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROOT MEAN SQUARE DEVIATION; RURAL AREA; SMOOTHING KERNEL METHOD; WIND DIRECTION;

AIR POLLUTION; CARBON DIOXIDE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RURAL POPULATION; SPAIN; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 84876743265     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.03.075     Document Type: Article

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