A new flow-through directional passive air sampler: Design, performance and laboratory testing for monitoring ambient nitrogen dioxide

Atmospheric Pollution Research

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-8

  Lin, Chun ^a   Becker, Sara ^a   Timmis, Roger ^a   Jones, Kevin C ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ambient monitoring; Directional passive air sampling; Flow through; Nitrogen dioxide; Rotatable sampler

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865540806     PISSN: 13091042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5094/APR.2011.001     Document Type: Article

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