COMPARISON OF VARIOUS METHODS FOR MODELLING THE DEPENDENCE OF OZONE CONCENTRATIONS ON METEOROLOGICAL AND POLLUTANT PARAMETERS IN ATHENS

摘要

The present study compares various methods for modeling the dependence of the surface ozone concentration on several meteorological and pollutant parameters in two different sites in the metropolitan area of Athens, Greece. Although linear regression models fail to produce accurate equations due to multicollinearity, still combinations of principal component and stepwise regression analyses manage to produce prediction models free of the multicollinearity issue.