title: Air pollution modeling for an industrial complex and model performance evaluation.
abstract: Jamshedpur, the steel city of India situated in the eastern part of India is affected by increasing air pollution levels as a result of concentrated industrial activities. The impact of NOx emissions resulting from various air pollution sources, viz. industries, vehicles and domestic, was estimated using Industrial Source Complex Short-Term gaussian dispersion model. The contribution of NOx concentration from industrial, vehicular and domestic sources was found to be 53, 40 and 7%. Further statistical analysis was carried out to evaluate the model performance by comparing measured and predicted NOx concentrations. The model performance was found good with an accuracy of about 68%.
authors.affiliation: National Environmental Engineering Research Institute, CSIR Complex, Taramani, Chennai 113, India.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Sivacoumar
authors.forename: A D
authors.initials: AD
authors.lastname: Bhanarkar
authors.forename: S K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Goyal
authors.forename: S K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Gadkari
authors.forename: A L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Aggarwal
mesh_terms: D000397:Air Pollution / Q000032:analysis*; D004784:Environmental Monitoring / Q000379:methods*; D005544:Forecasting; D006801:Humans; D016014:Linear Models; D008669:Metallurgy; D015233:Models, Statistical; D009589:Nitrogen Oxides / Q000032:analysis; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D001335:Vehicle Emissions / Q000032:analysis
chemical_list: D009589:Nitrogen Oxides; D001335:Vehicle Emissions