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E-BAM Portable Particulate Monitor Met One Instruments' Portable Beta Gauges In the Field Looking like an army of robots, 20 mobile air monitors are gathered at an air quality monitoring site off Highway 1 near Nipomo in preparation for being deployed throughout the Nipomo Mesa for the next three months. Starting March 1, the air monitors will be set out in a grid pattern across the Mesa. They will continuously sample the air for dust particles during the windiest time of year — March, April and May. In the meantime, the monitors are being repaired and calibrated and their readings compared to a federally licensed air quality station at the permanent monitoring site, said Jaime Contreras, air quality monitoring specialist with the San Luis Obispo County Air Pollution Control District. “We want to make sure they are working properly and any problems are fixed before we deploy them,” he said. “They are all looking good.” The information the monitors gat...
It is important to understand that the US-EPA does not designate monitors . The US-EPA designates “ methods ”, which monitors are a part of. A “ method ” consists of a monitor equipped a number of specified accessories operated in a very specific way. Which accessories are required and how they are operated is written into US Federal Regulation. The EPA publishes and regularly updates a list of designated “reference” and “equivalent” methods. For each designated method, specific details are provided as to what additional equipment must be operated with the analyzer and how the analyzer must be configured in order for it to be a designated method. Reference methods were the original methods by which pollutants were measured. Equivalent methods are additional methods that have been demonstrated to the satisfaction of the US-EPA to provide equivalent measurements and are treated the same way legally as the reference method. For example, a manual low volume sampler, such as the B...
– The 011 Wind Speed Sensor has been designed to meet Class 1 performance criteria established by the International Electro-technical Commission (IEC 61400-12-1). Based upon the 25 year field-proven 010C platform and it features a new cup design to optimize cosine response, and a new connector to accomodate existing and new applications. The 011 Wind Speed Sensor is manufactured in the United States at our factories in Grants Pass, Oregon. For more information and pricing, please contact jpottberg@metone.com.
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Particle Falls http://vimeo.com/16336508 About this video: "Although air is invisible, it has a major impact on public health. Santa Clara County received a failing grade for air quality in the American Lung Association’s 2009 State of the Air Report and currently surpasses unhealthy short-term pollution particles a yearly average of 11 days, the 24th highest level in the US. The number of people that airborne particulate pollution kills each year has tripled in California. Despite the invisibility of air, modern sensors can detect tiny particulate pollution levels in real time. Particulate pollution can be measured by laser light scattering, and Particle Falls provides a real time visualization of particulate pollution in the San Fernando Corridor using the latest projection technology. The project focuses on the smallest particle, PM2.5, since the global monitoring of it is one of the most recent developments in aeronomy."