Publication at Faculty of Science |
2016
Abstract
Residential wood combustion for heat production is becoming more common in suburban areas of developed countries. As the emissions from wood combustion depend considerably on the combustion device, fuel quality, and operating conditions (Bolling et al. 2009), a limited number of monitors cannot characterize the fluxes resulting from urban emissions, atmospheric transformations, and transport (Holstius et al. 2014), and cannot describe personal exposures, a critical link between ambient air pollution and human health effects (Snyder at al. 2013).
Networks of low-cost monitors could provide intensive environmental surveillance producing representative and reliable information for an area of interest (Kumar at al. 2015).