Atmosphere (Jan 2011)

Comparison of Particulate Mercury Measured with Manual and Automated Methods

  • Rachel Russo,
  • Yong Zhou,
  • Karl Haase,
  • Jesse Ambrose,
  • Barkley Sive,
  • Dara Feddersen,
  • Melissa Smith,
  • Su Youn Kim,
  • Huiting Mao,
  • Robert Talbot

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos2010001
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2, no. 1
pp. 1 – 20

Abstract

Read online

A study was conducted to compare measuring particulate mercury (HgP) with the manual filter method and the automated Tekran system. Simultaneous measurements were conducted with the Tekran and Teflon filter methodologies in the marine and coastal continental atmospheres. Overall, the filter HgP values were on the average 21% higher than the Tekran HgP, and >85% of the data were outside of ±25% region surrounding the 1:1 line. In some cases the filter values were as much as 3-fold greater, with

Keywords