A sensitive and versatile detector for atmospheric NO2 and NOX based on blue diode laser cavity ring-down spectroscopy

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 43, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 7831-7836

  Fuchs, Hendrik ^a,b,c   Dubé, William P ^a,b   Lerner, Brian M ^a,b   Wagner, Nicholas L ^a   Williams, Eric J ^a,b   Brown, Steven S ^a  

^a EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION CROSS SECTIONS; AMBIENT AIR; BLUE DIODE LASER; CAVITY RING-DOWN SPECTROSCOPY; CO-LOCATED; CONCENTRATION MEASUREMENT; CONSUMABLES; DATA SETS; LASER DIODES; LIMIT OF DETECTION; NEW INSTRUMENT; SMALL DETECTORS; TIME RESOLUTION; TRACE-GASES;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; DETECTORS; GAS ABSORPTION; LIGHT MEASUREMENT; NITRIC OXIDE; NITROGEN OXIDES; WATER ABSORPTION; WATER VAPOR;

OZONE;

NITROGEN DIOXIDE; NITROGEN OXIDE; OZONE;

ADSORPTION; AMBIENT AIR; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; DATA SET; DETECTION METHOD; LASER; NITRIC OXIDE; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; OZONE; PHOTOLYSIS; SPECTROSCOPY; WATER VAPOR;

ACCURACY; AIR ANALYSIS; AIR POLLUTANT; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMOLUMINESCENCE; DIODE LASER; PHOTOLYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTROSCOPY; WATER VAPOR;

AIR; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; LASERS; NITRIC OXIDE; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 70350345708     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es902067h     Document Type: Article

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