IZAÑA ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH CENTRE PARTICIPATES IN AN INTERNATIONAL INTERCOMPARISON OF CONDENSATION PARTICLE COUNTERS AT THE WORLD CALIBRATION CENTRE FOR AEROSOL PHYSICS, IN LEIPZIG, GERMANY
The intercomparison was performed from 19 to 24 September 2011 at the World Calibration Centre for Aerosol Physics, located in the Institute for Tropospheric Research in Leipzig, Germany. In the event, 84 instruments belonging to a several universities and research centre of Europe, North America and Asia participated. Many of these instruments are usually placed at stations of the Global Atmospheric Watch (Figure 1). These exercises are necessary for assessing and quantifying the degree of comparability between the measurements performed by the different instruments. In these exercises the efficiency curve of each particle counter is determined.
Some of the recent studies performed by the Izaña Atmospheric Research Centre based on Particle Counters:
González, Y., S. Rodríguez, J.C. Guerra, J.L. Trujillo, R. García. Ultrafine particles pollution in urban coastal air due to ship emissions. Atmospheric Environment. 45 (2011), 4907-4914, doi: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2011.06.002.
Domínguez-Rodríguez, A., Abreu-Afonso, J., Rodríguez, S., Juárez-Prera, R.A., Arroyo-Ucar, E., Jiménez-Sosa, A., González, Y., Abreu-González, P., Avanzas, P. Comparative Study of Ambient Air Particles in Patients Hospitalized for Heart Failure and Acute Coronary Syndrome. Revista Española de Cardiologia, 2011;64(8), 661–666, doi:10.1016/j.rec.2010.12.023, 2011.
Fernández-Camacho, R., S. Rodríguez, J. de la Rosa, AM Sánchez de la Campa, M. Viana, A. Alastuey, X. Querol. Ultrafine particle formation in the inland sea breeze airflow in Southwest Europe. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 10, 9615-9630, 2010, doi: 10.5194/acp-10-9615-2010.
Rodríguez, S., Y. González, E. Cuevas, R. Ramos, P. M. Romero, J. Abreu-Afonso, A. Redondas. Atmospheric nanoparticle observations in the low free troposphere during upward orographic flows at Izaña Mountain Observatory. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 9, 17, 6319-6335, 2009.
Pictures taken during the intercomparison:
