NARSTO EPA_SS_LOS_ANGELES Scanning Mobility Particle Size Data

At Claremont, Downey, Riverside, Rubidoux (Los Angeles County, California), TSI Scanning mobility particle sizer (SMPS) was used in a mobile trailer to collect size characteristics of particles ranging from about 0.014 to 0.673 mm during December 8, 2000 to February 22, 2002. The SMPS measured particle count concentrations for 54 to 108 channels that cover sizes from 0.014 to 0.673 mm in every 15 minutes.The overall objective of the Los Angeles Supersite in Southern California Particle Center and Supersite (SCPCS) is to conduct monitoring and research that contributes to a better understanding of the measurement, sources, size distribution, chemical composition and physical state, spatial and temporal variability, and linkages to health effects of airborne particulate matter in the Los Angeles Basin.The U.S. EPA Particulate Matter (PM) Supersites Program was an ambient air monitoring research program designed to provide information of value to the atmospheric sciences, and human health and exposure research communities.

Eight geographically diverse projects were chosen to specifically address these EPA research priorities: (1) to characterize PM, its constituents, precursors, co-pollutants, atmospheric transport, and its source categories that affect the PM in any region; (2) to address the research questions and scientific uncertainties about PM source-receptor and exposure-health effects relationships; and (3) to compare and evaluate different methods of characterizing PM including testing new and emerging measurement methods.NARSTO (formerly North American Research Strategy for Tropospheric Ozone) is a public/private partnership, whose membership spans government, the utilities, industry, and academe throughout Mexico, the United States, and Canada.