Winter comparison of TEOM, MiniVol and DustTrak PM10 monitors in a woodsmoke environment

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 338-347

  Kingham, Simon ^a   Durand, Michael ^a   Aberkane, Teresa ^b   Harrison, Justin ^a   Gaines Wilson, J ^a   Epton, Michael ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b Environment Canterbury   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Ambient monitoring; Monitoring networks; Particulate matter

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; ALGORITHMS; CORRELATORS; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

AMBIENT MONITORING; MONITORING NETWORKS; PARTICULATE MATTERS; WOODSMOKE ENVIRONMENT;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; MONITORING SYSTEM; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER;

AIR MONITORING; AIR POLLUTION; AIRBORNE PARTICLE; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DATA ANALYSIS; POLLUTION MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; SMOKE; WINTER;

EID: 29144439128     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2005.09.042     Document Type: Article

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