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Article: Research from P. Quincey and co-authors yields new data on atmospheric environment.
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- Ecology, Environment & Conservation
- Article date:
- November 13, 2009
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According to a study from Teddington, the United Kingdom, "The carbonaceous components of Particulate Matter samples form a substantial fraction of their total mass, but their quantification depends strongly on the instruments and methods used. United Kingdom monitoring networks have provided many relevant data sets that are already in the public domain."
"Specifically, hourly organic carbon (OC) and elemental carbon (EC) were determined at four sites between 2003 and 2007 using Rupprecht and Pattashnik (R & P) 5400 automatic instruments. Since 2007, daily OC/EC measurements have been made by manual thermo-optical analysis of filter samples using a Sunset ...