Inter-laboratory study to improve the quality of the analysis of nutrients in rainwater chemistry

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 43, Issue 21, 2009, Pages 3424-3430

  Karthikeyan, Sathrugnan ^a   Balasubramanian, Rajasekhar ^a   He, Jun ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Nitrogen deposition; Precipitation chemistry; Quality assurance; Quality control; Uncertainty analysis

Indexed keywords

AMMONIUM IONS; ANALYTICAL DATA; ANALYTICAL RESULTS; AUSTRALIA; LABORATORY PERFORMANCE; LABORATORY STUDIES; LOW CONCENTRATION LEVELS; MEMBRANE FILTERS; NITRATE NITROGEN; NITROGEN DEPOSITION; PRECIPITATION CHEMISTRY; RAINWATER CHEMISTRY; RAINWATER SAMPLES; SINGAPORE; SLOVENIA; TOTAL NITROGEN; TOTAL PHOSPHORUS;

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; FLOW PATTERNS; LABORATORIES; NITROGEN; NUTRIENTS; PHOSPHORUS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; QUALITY FUNCTION DEPLOYMENT; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

QUALITY CONTROL;

AMMONIA; NITRATE; NITROGEN; PHOSPHATE; PHOSPHORUS; RAIN;

HOMOGENEITY; LABORATORY METHOD; RAINWATER; WATER CHEMISTRY;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; AUTOCLAVE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; FILTRATION; HOMOGENATE; LABORATORY; NITROGEN DEPOSITION; NUTRIENT CONTENT; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SINGAPORE; WATER SAMPLING;

EID: 67349138635     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2009.03.025     Document Type: Article

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