Assessment of air pollution around coal mining area: Emphasizing on spatial distributions, seasonal variations and heavy metals, using cluster and principal component analysis

Atmospheric Pollution Research

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 79-86

  Pandey, Bhanu ^a   Agrawal, Madhoolika ^a   Singh, Siddharth ^b  

^a BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b CSIR CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF MINING AND FUEL RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Air Pollution Index (API); Cluster Analysis (CA); Heavy metals; Jharia Coal Field (JCF); Principal Component Analysis (PCA)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891379671     PISSN: 13091042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5094/APR.2014.010     Document Type: Article

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