CAQI common air quality index - update with PM2.5 and sensitivity analysis

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 488-489, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 461-468

  Van Den Elshout, Sef ^a   Léger, Karine ^b   Heich, Hermann ^c  

^a DCMR Environmental Protection Agency   (Netherlands)

^b AIRPARIF   (France)

^c Heich Consult   (Germany)

Author keywords

Air quality index; Public awareness; Urban air quality

Indexed keywords

FISH; POLLUTION; QUALITY ASSURANCE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

AIR QUALITY INDICES; CALCULATION SCHEME; EUROPEAN CITIES; PUBLIC AWARENESS; SMOOTH TRANSITIONS; URBAN AIR QUALITY; URBAN BACKGROUND;

AIR QUALITY;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; INTERNET; NUMERICAL METHOD; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTANT; REAL TIME; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

AIR MONITORING; AIR POLLUTANT; AIR QUALITY STANDARD; ARTICLE; CITY; COMMON AIR QUALITY INDEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; EUROPE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE;

EUROPE;

AIR QUALITY INDEX; PM(2.5); PUBLIC AWARENESS; URBAN AIR QUALITY;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; CITIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EUROPE; PARTICULATE MATTER;

EID: 84901610232     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.10.060     Document Type: Article

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