title: Statistical analysis of trends in urban ozone air quality.
abstract: The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the use of some statistical methods for examining trends in ambient ozone air quality downwind of major urban areas. To this end, daily maximum 1-hr ozone concentrations measured over New Jersey, metropolitan New York City and Connecticut for the period 1980 to 1989 were assembled and analyzed. This paper discusses the application of the bootstrap method, extreme value statistics and a nonparametric test for evaluating trends in urban ozone air quality. The results indicate that although there is an improvement in ozone air quality downwind of New York City, there has been little change in ozone levels upwind of New York City during this ten-year period.
authors: Division of Air Resources, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, Albany.
authors: S T
authors: ST
authors: Rao
authors: G
authors: G
authors: Sistla
authors: R
authors: R
authors: Henry
mesh_terms: D000393:Air Pollutants / Q000032:analysis*; D003237:Connecticut; D008685:Meteorological Concepts; D009515:New Jersey; D009518:New York; D010126:Ozone / Q000032:analysis*; D013223:Statistics as Topic
chemical_list: D000393:Air Pollutants; D010126:Ozone