Some measurements of ground level NO, NO2 and O3 concentrations at an unpolluted maritime site

R. A. Cox

doi:10.3402/tellusa.v29i4.11367

Some measurements of ground level NO, NO2 and O3 concentrations at an unpolluted maritime site

Tellus

Volume 29 (1977): Issue 4

By: R. A. Cox

Open Access

|Jan 1977

Abstract

Concentrations of NO, NO₂ and O₃ were measured at ground level at a coastal location in S.W. Ireland, using continuous, chemiluminescence analysis. The results confirm previous measurements of very low background concentrations of nitrogen oxides in background maritime air, ≤0.2 ppb for NO and 0.4 ppb for NO₂. The transport and removal of NO₂ in a continental air mass is also demonstrated.

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