Assessment of the variability of pollutants concentration over the metropolitan area of São Paulo, Brazil, using the wavelet transform

Atmospheric Science Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 87-95

  Zeri, M ^a   Carvalho, V S B ^b   Cunha Zeri, G ^a   Oliveira Junior J F ^c   Lyra, G B ^c   Freitas, E D ^d  

^a Brazilian Center for Monitoring and Early Warnings of Natural Disasters ^*  (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF ITAJUBÁ   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL RURAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Data analysis; Industrial activity; Meteorological systems; Wavelet analysis

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; ASSESSMENT METHOD; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); INDUSTRIAL EMISSION; METEOROLOGY; METROPOLITAN AREA; POLLUTANT; TRANSFORM; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

BRAZIL; SAO PAULO [BRAZIL]; SAO PAULO [SAO PAULO (STT)];

EID: 84955208058     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1530261X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asl.618     Document Type: Article

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