National performance audit program ambient air audits of analytical proficiency - 1983

Technical Report · Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 1984

OSTI ID:5965632

Lampe, R L; Parr, B F; Pratt, G; Dowler, O L; Mitchell, W J

This report presents the results of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's 1983 National Audit Program by pollutant and by analytical method. Semiannual audits were conducted for SO/sub 2/ and NO/sub 2/ (bubbler methods), Pb, NO/sub 3//sup -/ and SO/sub 4//sup -/ (filter strips) and CO (continuous monitors). One audit was conducted on high-volume flow rate. Continuous SO/sub 2/ monitors were audited throughout the year, such that no monitor was audited more than once. This was the first year that acid-rain audits were conducted for U.S. laboratories -- approximately 30 laboratories participated in each semiannual acid rain audit.

• Research Organization: Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC (USA). Environmental Monitoring and Systems Lab.
• OSTI ID: 5965632
• Report Number(s): PB-85-138204/XAB; EPA/600/4-84/077
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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500200* -- Environment
Atmospheric-- Chemicals Monitoring & Transport-- (-1989)
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
ACID RAIN
AIR POLLUTION MONITORING
ATMOSPHERIC PRECIPITATIONS
CARBON COMPOUNDS
CARBON MONOXIDE
CARBON OXIDES
CHALCOGENIDES
CONTROL
LABORATORIES
MONITORING
NITRATES
NITROGEN COMPOUNDS
NITROGEN DIOXIDE
NITROGEN OXIDES
OXIDES
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
QUALITY CONTROL
RAIN
SULFATES
SULFUR COMPOUNDS
SULFUR DIOXIDE
SULFUR OXIDES