Development of a fuzzy pattern recognition model for air quality assessment of Howrah City

Aerosol and Air Quality Research

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1639-1652

  Upadhyay, Abhishek ^a   Kanchan, ^a   Goyal, Pramila ^b   Yerramilli, Anjaneyulu ^c   Gorai, Amit Kumar ^a  

^a BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

^c JACKSON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Air Quality assessment; Fuzzy pattern recognition; Optimisation

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; NITROGEN OXIDES; PATTERN RECOGNITION; POPULATION STATISTICS; TRAFFIC CONGESTION;

AIR QUALITY ASSESSMENT; ANNUAL AVERAGE CONCENTRATION; AVERAGE CONCENTRATION; FUZZY PATTERN RECOGNITION; OPTIMISATIONS; POLLUTION CONCENTRATION; POPULATION DENSITIES; SMALL SCALE INDUSTRIES;

AIR POLLUTION CONTROL;

AIR QUALITY; ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CARBON MONOXIDE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FUZZY MATHEMATICS; INDUSTRIAL EMISSION; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; OPTIMIZATION; OZONE; PARTICULATE MATTER; SULFUR DIOXIDE; TREND ANALYSIS;

HOWRAH; INDIA; WEST BENGAL;

EID: 84907251361     PISSN: 16808584     EISSN: 20711409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4209/aaqr.2013.04.0118     Document Type: Article

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