Development and operation of a microprocessor based wet deposition monitor

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 30, Issue 21, 1996, Pages 3611-3622

  Beverland, I J ^a   Crowther, J M ^b   Srinivas, M S N ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c CSIR CENTRAL SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS ORGANISATION   (India)

Author keywords

Acid deposition; Acid deposition episode; Acid rain; Precipitation events; Sub event chemistry; Sub event sampling

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

ACID RAIN; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONDUCTANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; METEOROLOGY; MICROPROCESSOR; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED KINGDOM;

ACID RAIN; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; MONITORING; PH; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SAMPLING; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

ACID DEPOSITION; SUB EVENT CHEMISTRY; SUB EVENT SAMPLING;

METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS;

ACID DEPOSITION; ACID RAIN; ATMOSPHERIC INSTRUMENT; MONITOR; PRECIPITATION EVENT; RAINFALL CHEMISTRY; RAINWATER COLLECTION; WET DEPOSITION;

EID: 0030274172     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/1352-2310(96)00054-4     Document Type: Article

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