The role of local urban traffic and meteorological conditions in air pollution: A data-based case study in Madrid, Spain

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 145, Issue , 2016, Pages 424-438

  Laña, Ibai ^a   Del Ser, Javier ^a,b,c   Padró, Ales ^a   Vélez, Manuel ^b   Casanova Mateo, Carlos ^d  

^a TECNALIA RESEARCH AND INNOVATION   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^c BCAM BASQUE CENTER FOR APPLIED MATHEMATICS   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Meteorological conditions; Random forests; Supervised learning; Traffic flow; Urban air pollution

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; DECISION TREES; METEOROLOGY; POLLUTION; PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SUPERVISED LEARNING;

METEOROLOGICAL CONDITION; METEOROLOGICAL DATA; RANDOM FORESTS; TOPOGRAPHICAL FEATURES; TRAFFIC FLOW; TRAINING PROCEDURES; URBAN AIR POLLUTION; VEHICULAR EMISSION;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS;

NITROGEN OXIDE; OZONE; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; METEOROLOGY; PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION; ROADSIDE ENVIRONMENT; SUPERVISED LEARNING; TRAFFIC EMISSION; URBAN AREA; URBAN POLLUTION; URBAN TRANSPORT;

AIR MONITORING; AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; CITY; CLIMATE; EXHAUST GAS; METEOROLOGY; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPAIN; TRAFFIC; URBAN AREA; WINTER;

MADRID [SPAIN]; SPAIN;

EID: 84989201367     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: 18732844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2016.09.052     Document Type: Article

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