Air Contaminant Statistical Distributions with Application to PM10 in Santiago, Chile
Breathable air is a gas mixture made up of 78 % nitrogen, 21 % oxygen, and 1 % carbon dioxide and other gases such as argon, radon, and xenon (Pani 2007). Atmospheric contamination is the presence in the air of substances that change its chemical and phys
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Contents 1 Introduction .......................................................................................................................... 2 Air Contaminants and Their Health Effects ......................................................................... 2.1 Gaseous Compounds ................................................................................................... 2.2 Heavy Metals ............................................................................................................... 2.3 Persistent Organic Pollutants....................................................................................... 2.4 Suspended Solid Particles ........................................................................................... 3 Air Contaminant Distributions ............................................................................................. 3.1 Larsen (1971)’s Pioneering Work................................................................................ 3.2 After Larsen’s Work .................................................................................................... 3.3 Ott (1990)’s Physical Justification............................................................................... 3.4 Birnbaum–Saunders Air Contaminant Distribution (2008) ........................................ 4 Air Contamination in Santiago, Chile .................................................................................. 4.1 Location ....................................................................................................................... 4.2 Wind and Thermal Inversion Effects ........................................................................... 4.3 Monitoring Stations and Data Measurement ............................................................... 4.4 Human Health Effects and International Guidelines ................................................... 4.5 A Study in Santiago, Chile.... ......................................................................................
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C. Marchant • V. Leiva (*) Departamento de Estadística, Universidad de Valparaíso, Gran Bretaña 1111, Playa Ancha, Valparaíso, Chile e-mail: [email protected] M.F. Cavieres Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad de Valparaíso, Valparaíso, Chile A. Sanhueza Departamento de Matemática y Estadística, Universidad de La Frontera, Temuco, Chile D.M. Whitacre (ed.), Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 223, DOI 10.1007/978-1-4614-5577-6_1, © Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013
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5 Application to PM10 Concentrations in Santiago, Chile ..................................................... 5.1 Problem Under Analysis and Data .............................................................................. 5.2 Autocorrelation Analysis............................................................................................. 5.3 Exploratory Data Analysis ..................
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