1. The Four-Wavelength Photoacoustic Aerosol Absorption Spectrometer PAAS-4.
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Schnaiter, Franz Martin, Linke, Claudia, Asmi, Eija, Servomaa, Henri, Hyvärinen, Antti-Pekka, Sho Ohata, Yutaka Kondo, and Järvinen, Emma
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AIR quality monitoring stations , *AEROSOLS , *SPECTROMETERS , *AIR quality , *ACOUSTIC resonators - Abstract
In this paper the Photoacoustic Aerosol Absorption Spectrometer PAAS-4λ is introduced. PAAS-4λ was specifically developed for long-term monitoring tasks in (unattended) air quality stations. It uses four wavelengths coupled to a single acoustic resonator in a compact and robust set-up. The instrument has been thoroughly characterized and carefully calibrated in the laboratory using NO2/air mixtures and Nigrosin aerosol. It has an ultimate 1σ detection limit below 0.1 Mm-1 at a measurement precision and accuracy of 3% and 10%, respectively. In order to demonstrate the PAAS-4λ suitability for long-term monitoring tasks, the instrument is currently validated at the air quality monitoring station Pallas in Finland, about 140 km north of the Arctic circle. Eleven months of PAAS-4λ data from this deployment are presented and discussed in terms of instrument performance. Intercomparisons with the filter-based photometers COSMOS, MAAP, and AE33 demonstrate the capabilities and value of PAAS-4λ, also for the validation of the widely used filter-based instruments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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