Assessment of particulate matter variation during 2011–2015 over a tropical station Agra, India

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 147, Issue , 2016, Pages 11-21

  Gogikar, Priyanjali ^a   Tyagi, Bhishma ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Back trajectory analysis; Diurnal and seasonal variations; Particulate matter; Wavelet analysis

Indexed keywords

PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); POLLUTION; POLLUTION CONTROL; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

AVERAGE CONCENTRATION; BACK TRAJECTORY ANALYSIS; HEALTHY ENVIRONMENTS; PARTICULATE MATTER; POTENTIAL SOURCE CONTRIBUTION FUNCTION; RESPIRABLE SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTERS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTERS;

AIR QUALITY;

AIR QUALITY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DIURNAL VARIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; EUROPEAN UNION; POLLUTANT SOURCE; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; POLLUTION CONTROL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; TRAJECTORY; WAVELET ANALYSIS; WORLD HERITAGE SITE;

AIR ANALYSIS; AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; AIR QUALITY STANDARD; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION; INDIA; PERIODICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

AGRA; CHINA; INDIA; UNITED STATES; UTTAR PRADESH;

EID: 84989162431     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: 18732844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2016.09.063     Document Type: Article

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