Descriptive Analysis Of Several Pollutants Measured By A Monitoring Network In An Urban Area
Price
Free (open access)
Transaction
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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