Intensive Measurement Campaigns

Inomata, S., Tanimoto, H., Kato, S. et al. (2010) PTR-MS measurements of nonmethane volatile organic compounds during an intensive field campaign at the summit of Mount Tai, China, in June 2006. Atmos. Chem. Phys. 10,7085. 

Several European intensive short-term ( campaign-type ) projects have provided important information on the atmospheric aerosol properties in Europe, usually by concentrating on specific aerosol properties or interactions. However, these kinds of campaign-type measurements do not necessarily represent the seasonal or annual variations of the aerosol concentrations and can overestimate some properties of the aerosol populations. Long-term measurements, especially with intercalibrated instruments and common data handling and calibration protocols make the data comparison between stations much more reliable and provide the end users (e.g., atmospheric modelers) good datasets to compare with. 

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