Articles | Volume 15, issue 13
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-4091-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-4091-2022
Research article
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13 Jul 2022
Research article |  | 13 Jul 2022

Air pollution measurement errors: is your data fit for purpose?

Sebastian Diez, Stuart E. Lacy, Thomas J. Bannan, Michael Flynn, Tom Gardiner, David Harrison, Nicholas Marsden, Nicholas A. Martin, Katie Read, and Pete M. Edwards

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Regardless of the cost of the measuring instrument, there are no perfect measurements. For this reason, we compare the quality of the information provided by cheap devices when they are used to measure air pollutants and we try to emphasise that before judging the potential usefulness of the devices, the user must specify his own needs. Since commonly used performance indices/metrics can be misleading in qualifying this, we propose complementary visual analysis to the more commonly used metrics.
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