Assessing the impact of local meteorological variables on surface ozone in Hong Kong during 2000–2015 using quantile and multiple line regression models

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 144, Issue , 2016, Pages 182-193

  Zhao, Wei ^a,c   Fan, Shaojia ^a   Guo, Hai ^d   Gao, Bo ^b,c   Sun, Jiaren ^c   Chen, Laiguo ^c  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SOUTH CHINA INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^d HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Dominance analysis; Meteorological variables; Multiple linear regression; Ozone; Quantile regression

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; BOUNDARY LAYERS; LINEAR REGRESSION; OZONE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RURAL AREAS; SEA LEVEL; SOLAR RADIATION; URBAN GROWTH;

DOMINANCE ANALYSIS; METEOROLOGICAL CONDITION; METEOROLOGICAL PARAMETERS; METEOROLOGICAL VARIABLES; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSIONS; NON-LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; QUANTILE REGRESSION; SURFACE SOLAR RADIATION;

OZONE LAYER;

OZONE; RAIN;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); METEOROLOGY; OLYMPIC GAMES; OZONE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RURAL AREA; SOLAR RADIATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA;

ARTICLE; AUTUMN; BOUNDARY LAYER; CLOUD; HONG KONG; HUMIDITY; METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA; METEOROLOGY; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTILE REGRESSION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RURAL AREA; SEA LEVEL; SEASON; SOLAR RADIATION; SPRING; STATISTICAL MODEL; SUBURBAN AREA; SUMMER; TEMPERATURE; WIND; WINTER;

CHINA; HONG KONG;

EID: 84989818919     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: 18732844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2016.08.077     Document Type: Article

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