Evaluation of MARS for the spatial distribution modeling of carbon monoxide in an urban area

Atmospheric Pollution Research

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 581-588

  Shahraiyni, Hamid Taheri ^a,b   Shahsavani, Davood ^b   Sargazi, Saeed ^c   Habibi–Nokhandan, Majid ^d  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b SHAHROOD UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^c TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^d Climatological Research Institute   (Iran)

Author keywords

Carbon Monoxide; Interpolation techniques; Multi variate Adaptive Regression Splines (MARS); Spatial distribution modeling; Tehran

Indexed keywords

EID: 84936750594     PISSN: 13091042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5094/APR.2015.065     Document Type: Article

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