Numerical model-based relationship between meteorological conditions and air quality and its implication for urban air quality management

International Journal of Environment and Pollution

Volumn 53, Issue 3-4, 2013, Pages 265-286

  He, Jianjun ^a   Yu, Ye ^a   Liu, Na ^a,b   Zhao, Suping ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Air Quality Management; Environmental Pollution; Lanzhou; Meteorological Condition; Mlr; Multiple Linear Regression; Numerical Simulations; Temperature Stratification; Urban Air Quality; Weather Research And Forecast; Wrf

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; BOUNDARY LAYERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LINEAR REGRESSION; METEOROLOGY; NEURAL NETWORKS; NUMERICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; QUALITY MANAGEMENT; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTIONS; LANZHOU; METEOROLOGICAL CONDITION; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSIONS; TEMPERATURE STRATIFICATION; URBAN AIR QUALITY; WEATHER RESEARCH;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

NITROGEN DIOXIDE;

AIR QUALITY; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BOUNDARY LAYER; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLLUTANT; POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; URBAN PLANNING; WEATHER; WIND; WINTER;

AIR POLLUTANT; AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BOUNDARY LAYER; CITY PLANNING; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); FORECASTING; HEIGHT; METEOROLOGY; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PARTICULATE MATTER; RURAL AREA; TEMPERATURE; URBAN AREA; WEATHER; WINTER;

CHINA; GANSU; LANZHOU;

EID: 84896964477     PISSN: 09574352     EISSN: 17415101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJEP.2013.059921     Document Type: Article

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