Development of an ANN–based air pollution forecasting system with explicit knowledge through sensitivity analysis

Atmospheric Pollution Research

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 696-708

  Elangasinghe, Madhavi Anushka ^a   Singhal, Naresh ^a   Dirks, Kim N ^a   Salmond, Jennifer A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Air pollution modeling; Artificial neural networks; Meteorology; NO2 concentrations; Sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907578344     PISSN: 13091042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5094/APR.2014.079     Document Type: Article

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