Long term assessment of air quality from a background station on the Malaysian Peninsula
Date
2014
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Publisher
Elsevier
Abstract
Rural background stations provide insight into seasonal variations in pollutant concentrations and allow for comparisons to be made with stations closer to anthropogenic emissions. In Malaysia, the designated background station is located in Jerantut, Pahang. A fifteen-year data set focusing on ten major air pollutants and four meteorological variables from this station were analysed. Diurnal, monthly and yearly pollutant concentrations were derived from hourly continuous monitoring data. Statistical methods employed included principal component regression (PCR) and sensitivity analysis.
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Keywords
Background stations, Major air pollutants, Meteorological factors, Monsoon
Citation
Latif, M. T., Dominick, D., Ahamad, F., Khan, M. F., Juneng, L., Hamzah, F. M., & Nadzir, M. S. M. (2014). Long term assessment of air quality from a background station on the Malaysian Peninsula. Science of the total environment, 482, 336-348.