Spatial and temporal analysis of Air Pollution Index and its timescale-dependent relationship with meteorological factors in Guangzhou, China, 2001-2011

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 190, Issue , 2014, Pages 75-81

  Li, Li ^a   Qian, Jun ^a   Ou, Chun Quan ^a   Zhou, Ying Xue ^a   Guo, Cui ^a   Guo, Yuming ^b  

^a SOUTHERN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Meteorological factors; Seasonal Trend Decomposition Procedure Based on Loess; Timescale dependent relationship; Wavelet analysis

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; FACTOR ANALYSIS; QUALITY CONTROL; SEDIMENTS; WAVELET ANALYSIS; WAVELET DECOMPOSITION; WIND;

AIR POLLUTION INDEX; AIR QUALITY FORECASTS; DEPENDENT RELATIONSHIP; DIURNAL TEMPERATURE RANGES; METEOROLOGICAL FACTORS; SEASONAL TRENDS; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIATION;

AIR POLLUTION CONTROL;

AIR QUALITY; AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS; INDEX METHOD; METEOROLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TIMESCALE; WAVELET ANALYSIS; WIND VELOCITY;

AIR MONITORING; AIR POLLUTION INDEX; AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CHINA; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIURNAL TEMPERATURE RANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; HUMIDITY; METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PRECIPITATION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WEATHER; WIND SPEED;

CHINA; GUANGDONG; GUANGZHOU;

AIR POLLUTION; METEOROLOGICAL FACTORS; SEASONAL-TREND DECOMPOSITION PROCEDURE BASED ON LOESS; TIMESCALE-DEPENDENT RELATIONSHIP; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; CHINA; CLIMATE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; METEOROLOGICAL CONCEPTS; SEASONS; SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE; WEATHER; WIND;

EID: 84898637711     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: 18736424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2014.03.020     Document Type: Article

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