WIT Press


Descriptive Analysis Of Several Pollutants Measured By A Monitoring Network In An Urban Area

Price

Free (open access)

Volume

30

Pages

9

Published

1998

Size

702 kb

Paper DOI

10.2495/ASE980041

Copyright

WIT Press

Author(s)

S. Balasch, A. Montesinos, C. Capilla, F. Crespo, J.L. Bosch & J.L. Pison

Abstract

Air pollution is one of the most controversial environmental problems in society. In this work, we carry out a statistical analysis of the pollutants' concentration measured by a local network of fixed automatic monitoring stations sited in the urban area of Valencia, Spain. These sites were selected because they presented a high traffic density. The levels of contaminants in each station were compared taking into account their spatial and temporal variability. Although all the sites were chosen with the same approach (high traffic density), the structure of ai

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