http://apl.env.duth.gr The determination of atmospheric pollution levels in cities and rural environments. Transboundary atmospheric pollution loads. Greenhouse gases relation to global and local climatology. Aerosol optical and chemical properties and their relation to direct and indirect climate forcing. Study of Indoor Air Quality problems and the effect of indoor atmospheric pollutants on works of art and human health.IAQ modelling & management. Occupational safety and health issues and industrial hygiene problems.Biogeochemistry. Remote sensing. en http://apl.env.duth.gr/node/6 <p>&nbsp;</p> <ul> <p>&nbsp;The Laboratory of Atmospheric Pollution is part of the Department of Environmental Engineering, of Democritus University of Thrace in Greece. The laboratory closely collaborates with other Atmospheric Physics and Meteorology Departments in the country and in Europe via national, international and EU funded programmes.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3><strong>Scientific aims</strong></h3> <ul> <li>The determination of atmospheric pollution levels in cities and rural environments.</li> <li>Transboundary atmospheric pollution loads.</li> <li>Greenhouse gases relation to global and local climatology</li> <li>Aerosol optical and chemical properties and their relation to direct and indirect climate forcing</li> <li>Study of Indoor Air Quality problems and the effect of indoor atmospheric pollutants on works of art and human health.</li> <li>IAQ modelling &amp; management.</li> <li>Occupational safety and health issues and industrial hygiene problems.</li> <li>Biogeochemistry</li> <li>Remote sensing</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3><strong>Equipment</strong></h3> <p>The laboratory is equipped with numerous state of the art instruments like:</p> <ul> <li>a weather station with remote data transfer,</li> <li>an optical particle size counter,</li> <li>a carbon soot mass analyser,</li> <li>a nephelometer,</li> <li>a sun tracking photometer (CIMEL),</li> <li>an atmospheric pressure ionisation mass spectrometer for direct analysis of the atmosphere,</li> <li>a VG Trio GC-MS, two GCs,</li> <li>a DIONEX ion chromatograph,</li> <li>CO₂, NOx, O₃&nbsp;and SO₂&nbsp;box analysers,</li> <li>2 high volume impactors with PM10 heads,</li> <li>2 high volume dichotomous virtual impactors,</li> <li>a beta attenuation PM₁₀&nbsp;mass concentration instrument also equipped with a reflectrometric carbon black sensor,</li> <li>a sonic anemometer, CSAT3</li> <li>a microclimatic station,</li> <li>a sound analysis spectrometer,</li> <li>a permeation device gas diluter,</li> <li>numerous low volume filter packs and denuders,</li> <li>and a high precision balance and</li> <li>a suit of laboratory hardware and glassware.</li> <li>a zirconium &Omicron;2 analyser</li> <li>a RAMON radon monitor</li> <li>&nbsp;an AUTOMESS 61590 AD4 radiation dose rate meter with an alpha-beta-gamma probe</li> <li>a MicroTOPS Ozone water vapor monitor and UV photometer</li> <li>a Campbell Scientific CS110 electric field sensor</li> <li>a Multigas Open Path Differential Optical Absorption (DOAS) Spectrometry Analyzer (SANOA)</li> </ul> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:46:42 +0300 admin 6 at http://apl.env.duth.gr