Abstract

Urban environments contain high levels of particulate matter of a variety of forms. The University of Maryland (UMCP) has been participating in a large-scale multi-University effort to characterize urban particulate matter in Pittsburgh, PA. This “Aerosol Supersite” project, sponsored by the U.S. EPA and the U.S. Department of Energy, brings together a number of aerosol measurement technologies to characterize the size, organic and inorganic constituents, and ionic character of the urban aerosol. UMCP has been working to employ LIBS for inorganic species concentrations measurements in the ambient aerosol.

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