Analysis of the Air Quality of the Basque Autonomous Community Using Spatial Interpolation

Elisabete Alberdi, Irantzu Alvarez, Heber Hernández, Aitor Oyarbide-Zubillaga and Aitor Goti
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Elisabete Alberdi: Department of Applied Mathematics, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, 48013 Bilbao, Bizkaia, Spain
Irantzu Alvarez: Department of Graphical Expression and Engineering Projects, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, 48013 Bilbao, Bizkaia, Spain
Heber Hernández: Nube Minera, La Serena 1700000, Chile
Aitor Oyarbide-Zubillaga: Department of Mechanics, Design and Organization, University of Deusto, 48007 Bilbao, Bizkaia, Spain
Aitor Goti: Deusto Digital Industry Chair, University of Deusto, 48007 Bilbao, Bizkaia, Spain

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 10, 1-23

Abstract: This work presents the results obtained from a spatial modeling and analysis process on pollutants measured in the air through forty-three monitoring stations located in the three provinces of the Basque Autonomous Community (Spain). The pollutants measured correspond to the set of nitrogen oxides (nitric oxide, NO; nitrogen dioxide, NO 2 ; and nitrogen oxides, NO x ) and atmospheric particulate matter with a diameter less than or equal to 10 micrometers (PM 10 ). The objective of this work was to generate a map of the pollutants that exhaustively covers the entire area of the Basque Autonomous Community using geostatistical techniques, in such a way that it serves as a basis for short and midterm environmental studies.

Keywords: air quality; spatial analysis; kriging; Basque Autonomous Community (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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