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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-647-2021
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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-647-2021
© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Research article
| 
28 Jan 2021
Research article |
| 28 Jan 2021
| 28 Jan 2021
Effect of polyoxymethylene (POM-H Delrin) off-gassing within the Pandora head sensor on direct-sun and multi-axis formaldehyde column measurements in 2016–2019
Elena Spinei
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Center for Space Science And Engineering Research, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, USA
Martin Tiefengraber
LuftBlick, Innsbruck, Austria
Department of Atmospheric and Cryospheric Sciences, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
Moritz Müller
LuftBlick, Innsbruck, Austria
Department of Atmospheric and Cryospheric Sciences, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
Manuel Gebetsberger
LuftBlick, Innsbruck, Austria
Alexander Cede
LuftBlick, Innsbruck, Austria
Luke Valin
United States Environmental Protection Agency, Durham, NC, USA
James Szykman
United States Environmental Protection Agency, Durham, NC, USA
Andrew Whitehill
United States Environmental Protection Agency, Durham, NC, USA
Alexander Kotsakis
Universities Space Research Association, Columbia, MD, USA
Fernando Santos
Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
Nader Abbuhasan
Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, USA
Xiaoyi Zhao
Air Quality Research Division, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Toronto, M3H 5T4, Canada
Vitali Fioletov
Air Quality Research Division, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Toronto, M3H 5T4, Canada
Sum Chi Lee
Air Quality Research Division, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Toronto, M3H 5T4, Canada
Robert Swap
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
Data sets
Data used to demonstrate Effect of polyoxymethylene (POM-H Delrin) off-gassing within the Pandora head sensor on direct-sun and multi-axis formaldehyde column measurements in 2016–2019 E. Spinei and M. Tiefengraber http://spinei2021.pandonia-global-network.org/
Short summary
Plastics are widely used in everyday life and scientific equipment. This paper presents Delrin plastic off-gassing as a function of temperature on the atmospheric measurements of formaldehyde by Pandora spectroscopic instruments. The sealed telescope assembly containing Delrin components emitted large amounts of formaldehyde at 30–45 °C, interfering with the Pandora measurements. These results have a broader implication since electronic products often experience the same temperature.
Plastics are widely used in everyday life and scientific equipment. This paper presents Delrin...
