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Ambient Aerosol Extinction in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

Published by National Park Service | Department of the Interior | Catalog Last Checked: August 01, 2026 at 04:13 AM | Dataset Last Updated: October 17, 2018 at 12:00 AM
Field Methods: The following instruments provided by Handix Scientific will be installed at the Look Rock Site in Great Smoky Mountains National Park: Open-Path Cavity Ringdown Spectrometer (OPCRDS), Cavity Attenuated Phase Shift PM Extinction Monitor (CAPS). These instruments will run autonomously and sample ambient air at the site. Data from these instruments will be compared with publicly available data from the Interagency Monitoring of Protected Visual Environments (IMPROVE) program.

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