Articles | Volume 10, issue 7
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-2383-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-2383-2017
Research article
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03 Jul 2017
Research article |  | 03 Jul 2017

Evaluation and environmental correction of ambient CO2 measurements from a low-cost NDIR sensor

Cory R. Martin, Ning Zeng, Anna Karion, Russell R. Dickerson, Xinrong Ren, Bari N. Turpie, and Kristy J. Weber

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ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (Editor review) (08 May 2017) by Szymon Malinowski
AR by Cory Martin on behalf of the Authors (17 May 2017)
ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (01 Jun 2017) by Szymon Malinowski
AR by Cory Martin on behalf of the Authors (01 Jun 2017)  Manuscript 
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Short summary
A low-cost sensor for measuring carbon dioxide is evaluated for its performance in detecting concentrations in Earth's atmosphere. After a multivariate regression correcting for environmental variables, the root mean square error between it and a research-grade gas analyzer is less than 0.5 % of the observed average value. This demonstrates the viability for using these sensors in certain real-world atmospheric observing applications.