Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
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Articles | Volume 15, issue 3
Articles | Volume 15, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-655-2022
© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-655-2022
© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 15, issue 3
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09 Feb 2022
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Evaluating the PurpleAir monitor as an aerosol light scattering instrument

James R. Ouimette, William C. Malm, Bret A. Schichtel, Patrick J. Sheridan, Elisabeth Andrews, John A. Ogren, and W. Patrick Arnott

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Datasets for paper "Evaluating the PurpleAir monitor as an aerosol light scattering instrument" J. Ouimette, W. Malm, B. Schichtel, P. Sheridan, E. Andrews, J. A. Ogren, and W. P. Arnott https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5764982

Dataset associated with "Laboratory evaluation of low-cost PurpleAir PM monitors and in-field correction using co-located portable filter samplers" J. Tryner, C. L’Orange, J. Mehaffy, D. Miller-Lionberg, J. C. Hofstetter, A. Wilson, and J. Volckens https://doi.org/10.25675/10217/195445

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We show that the low-cost PurpleAir sensor can be characterized as a cell-reciprocal nephelometer. At two very different locations (Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii and the Table Mountain rural site in Colorado), the PurpleAir measurements are highly correlated with the submicrometer aerosol scattering coefficient measured by a research-grade integrating nephelometer. These results imply that, with care, PurpleAir data may be used to evaluate climate and air quality models.
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