Improving of local ozone forecasting by integrated models

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Volumn 23, Issue 18, 2016, Pages 18439-18450

  Gradišar, Dejan ^a   Grašič, Boštjan ^b   Božnar, Marija Zlata ^b   Mlakar, Primož ^b   Kocijan, Juš ^a,c  

^a JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^b MEIS doo   (Slovenia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOVA GORICA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Artificial neural networks; Ozone forecast; WRF numerical weather prediction model

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); GAS; INTEGRATED APPROACH; METEOROLOGY; MODEL VALIDATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; OZONE; URBAN AREA; WEATHER FORECASTING;

SLOVENIA;

OZONE;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FORECASTING; METEOROLOGY; PROCEDURES; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FORECASTING; METEOROLOGY; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); OZONE;

EID: 84973643398     PISSN: 09441344     EISSN: 16147499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-016-6989-2     Document Type: Article

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