Replacing the AMOR with the miniDOAS in the ammonia monitoring network in the Netherlands

Berkhout, Augustinus J. C.; Swart, Daan P. J.; Volten, Hester; Gast, Lou F. L.; Haaima, Marty; Verboom, Hans; Stefess, Guus; Hafkenscheid, Theo; Hoogerbrugge, Ronald

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-4099-2017

Articles | Volume 10, issue 11

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-4099-2017

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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-4099-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 10, issue 11

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02 Nov 2017

Research article |

| 02 Nov 2017

Replacing the AMOR with the miniDOAS in the ammonia monitoring network in the Netherlands

Augustinus J. C. Berkhout, Daan P. J. Swart, Hester Volten, Lou F. L. Gast, Marty Haaima, Hans Verboom, Guus Stefess, Theo Hafkenscheid, and Ronald Hoogerbrugge

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RC1: 'MiniDOAS on the way to become a standard monitoring syystem', Albrecht Neftel, 21 Mar 2017
- AC1: 'Author's response to referee comment', Stijn Berkhout, 25 Jul 2017
RC2: 'Review of the manuscript by Berkhout et al “Replacing the AMOR by the miniDOAS in the ammonia monitoring network in the Netherlands”', Anonymous Referee #3, 27 Jun 2017
- AC2: 'Author's response to referee comment', Stijn Berkhout, 25 Jul 2017

Short summary

One of the gases polluting the air that we measure in the Dutch National Air Quality Monitoring Network is ammonia. We replaced the ageing instruments that we used for the past 20 years by the miniDOAS, an instrument that uses ultraviolet light to measure ammonia. We operated the old and new instruments side by side for more than a year and found them to agree well. The miniDOAS measures faster than the old instrument; this will give us more insight in how ammonia behaves in the atmosphere.