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Statistical analysis and estimation of the regional trend of aerosol size over the Arabian Gulf Region during 2002-2016
Scientific Reports
  • Alina Barbulescu, Ovidius University of Constanta
  • Yousef Nazzal, Zayed University
  • Fares Howari, Zayed University
ORCID Identifiers

0000-0001-9840-2443

Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-1-2018
Abstract

© 2018 The Author(s). In this article, we present the results of the regional estimation of the evolution of monthly mean aerosol size over the Arabian Gulf Region, based on the data collected during the period July 2002 - September 2016. The dataset used is complete, without missing values. Two methods are introduced for this purpose. The first one is based on the partition of the regional series in sub-series and the selection of the most representative one for fitting the regional trend. The second one is a version of the first method, combined with the k-means clustering algorithm. Comparison of their performances is also provided. The study proves that both methods give a very good estimation of the evolution of the aerosol size in the Arabian Gulf Region in the study period.

Publisher
Nature Publishing Group
Disciplines
Keywords
  • aerosol,
  • review,
  • statistical analysis,
  • article,
  • k means clustering,
  • Persian Gulf
Scopus ID
85048972390
Creative Commons License
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Indexed in Scopus
Yes
Open Access
Yes
Open Access Type
Gold: This publication is openly available in an open access journal/series
Citation Information
Alina Barbulescu, Yousef Nazzal and Fares Howari. "Statistical analysis and estimation of the regional trend of aerosol size over the Arabian Gulf Region during 2002-2016" Scientific Reports Vol. 8 Iss. 1 (2018) p. 9571 - 9571 ISSN: <a href="https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/id/publication/issn/2045-2322" target="_blank">2045-2322</a>
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/fares-howari/30/