An assessment of influence of meteorological factors on PM10 and NO2 at selected stations in Malaysia

Sustainable Environment Research

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 305-315

  Dominick, Doreena ^a   Latif, Mohd Talib ^b   Juahir, Hafizan ^a   Aris, Ahmad Zaharin ^a   Zain, Sharifuddin M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Meteorological parameters; Nitrogen dioxide; Particulate matter; Regression analysis

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; CORRELATION METHODS; LINEAR REGRESSION; QUALITY MANAGEMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE; WIND;

AIR POLLUTANTS; METEOROLOGICAL FACTORS; METEOROLOGICAL PARAMETERS; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION METHOD; NITROGEN DIOXIDES; PARTICULATE MATTER; PEARSON CORRELATION; STATISTICAL MODELING;

NITROGEN OXIDES;

EID: 84894527842     PISSN: 24682039     EISSN: 24682039     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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