Assessment of the natural sources of particulate matter on the opencast mines air quality

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 493, Issue , 2014, Pages 1047-1055

  Huertas, J I ^a   Huertas, M E ^a   Cervantes, G ^a   Diaz J ^a  

^a SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND SCIENCES   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Air quality modeling; Meteorology; Multiple linear regression analysis; Opencast mining

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; LINEAR REGRESSION; METEOROLOGY; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER);

AIR QUALITY MODELING; METEOROLOGICAL CONDITION; METEOROLOGICAL VARIABLES; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MULTIPLE REGRESSION MODEL; OPEN-CAST MINING; PARTICLE CONCENTRATIONS; TOTAL SUSPENDED PARTICLES;

OPEN PIT MINING;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; METEOROLOGY; MODELING; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; OPENCAST MINING; PARTICULATE MATTER;

AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; COAL MINING; COLOMBIA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; HUMIDITY; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTION MONITORING; STATISTICAL MODEL; AIR POLLUTANT; ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

COLOMBIA;

AIR POLLUTANT; PARTICULATE MATTER;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; COAL MINING; COLOMBIA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PARTICULATE MATTER;

EID: 84904335371     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2014.05.111     Document Type: Article

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