Predicting violations of national ambient air quality standards using extreme value theory for Delhi city

Atmospheric Pollution Research

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 170-179

  Sharma, Pragati ^a   Chandra, Avinash ^b   Kaushik, S C ^b   Sharma, Prateek ^c   Jain, Suresh ^c  

^a BHARATI VIDYAPEETH S COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

^c TERI UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Air quality standards; Extreme value theory; Gumbel distribution; Statistical modeling; Time series; Type I asymptotic distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 84882784711     PISSN: 13091042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5094/APR.2012.017     Document Type: Article

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