Spatial modeling of daily concentrations of ground-level ozone in Montreal, Canada: A comparison of geostatistical approaches

Environmental Research

Volumn 166, Issue , 2018, Pages 487-496

  Ramos, Yuddy ^a   Requia, Weeberb J ^b   St Onge, Benoît ^c   Blanchet, Jean Pierre ^c   Kestens, Yan ^a,d   Smargiassi, Audrey ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^d CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^e INSTITUT NATIONAL DE SANTÉ PUBLIQUE DU QUÉBEC   (Canada)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Geostatistics; Ground level ozone; Kriging with external drift; Spatial analysis

Indexed keywords

OZONE;

AMBIENT AIR; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ESTIMATION METHOD; GEOSTATISTICS; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; HEALTH IMPACT; KRIGING; METROPOLITAN AREA; NUMERICAL MODEL; OZONE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; POLLUTION MONITORING; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CANADA; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ENTROPY; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GEOSTATISTICAL ANALYSIS; KRIGING; METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA; MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TRAFFIC; VEGETATION; AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING;

CANADA; MONTREAL; QUEBEC [CANADA];

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; BAYES THEOREM; CANADA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; OZONE;

EID: 85048984354     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2018.06.036     Document Type: Article

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