Unravelling a black box: an open-source methodology for the field calibration of small air quality sensors

Schmitz, Seán; Towers, Sherry; Villena, Guillermo; Caseiro, Alexandre; Wegener, Robert; Klemp, Dieter; Langer, Ines; Meier, Fred; von Schneidemesser, Erika

doi:10.5194/amt-14-7221-2021

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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-7221-2021

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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-7221-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 14, issue 11

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17 Nov 2021

Research article |

| 17 Nov 2021

Unravelling a black box: an open-source methodology for the field calibration of small air quality sensors

Seán Schmitz, Sherry Towers, Guillermo Villena, Alexandre Caseiro, Robert Wegener, Dieter Klemp, Ines Langer, Fred Meier, and Erika von Schneidemesser

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