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Evaluating the PurpleAir monitor as an aerosol light scattering instrument
James R. Ouimette
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Sonoma Ecology Center, Eldridge, CA 95431, USA
William C. Malm
Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA
Bret A. Schichtel
National Park Service Air Resources Division, Lakewood, CO 80225, USA
Patrick J. Sheridan
NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory, Boulder, CO 80305, USA
Elisabeth Andrews
NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory, Boulder, CO 80305, USA
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences,
University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
John A. Ogren
NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory, Boulder, CO 80305, USA
retired
W. Patrick Arnott
Department of Physics, University of Nevada, Reno, NV 89557, USA
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Short summary
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.
We show that the low-cost PurpleAir sensor can be characterized as a cell-reciprocal...