Standardisation of black carbon aerosol metrics for air quality and climate modelling

Black carbon (BC) is an air pollutant that contributes to climate forcing, reduced crop yields and impacts on our health. Produced by incomplete combustion of transport and other fossil fuels, air quality networks have been set-up to monitor its mass concentration and legally binding procedures are in place to identify and treat emission sources. Networks measure equivalent Black Carbon (eBC) mass concentrations in real time with light absorption photometers, but traceability is incomplete, uncertainties are poorly understood, and robust documentary standards are lacking. This project will address these needs and via input into normative standards aims to generate greater reliability for measurements of this important air pollutant.

Link

https://stanbc.com/
https://www.aramis.admin.ch/Texte/?ProjectID=54637

Created during FHNW affiliation

Yes

Strategic action fields FHNW

Zero Emission
Future Health

School

Hochschule für Technik und Umwelt FHNW

Institute

lnstitut für Sensorik und Elektronik

Financed by

European Association of National Metrology Institutes EURAMET
Staatssekretariat für Bildung, Forschung und Innovation SBFI

Project partner

Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB)
National Centre for Scientific Research “DEMOKRITOS" (NCSR "DEMOKRITOS")
Haze Instruments d.o.o.
Laboratoire national de métrologie et d'essais (LNE)
Eidgenössisches Institut für Metrologie METAS
Institut für Sensorik und Elektronik, Hochschule für Technik und Umwelt FHNW
Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (TROPOS)
National Physical Laboratory (NPL)
Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI)
Jožef Stefan Institute (JSI)

Contracting authority

SAP reference

Keywords

Black carbon
Aerosols
Aerosol light absorption
Aerosol absorption coefficient

Subject (DDC)

620 - Ingenieurwissenschaften und Maschinenbau
530 - Physik
540 - Chemie

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