PNSD 10 to 800nm

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Recommendation

>> ACTRIS Recommendation for measurements with mobility particle size spectrometers: Part I recommended instrument set up

>> ACTRIS Recommendation for measurements with mobility particle size spectrometers: Part II recommended particle loss correction

>> ACTRIS Recommendation for measurements with mobility particle size spectrometers: Part III standard operation procedure

>> ACTRIS Recommendation for measurements with mobility particle size spectrometers: Part IV constants and equations

>> ACTRIS Guidelines for Manual QC

last update January 2024

Performance & evaluation criteria

>> CEN Mobility Particle Size Spectrometer

last update January 2024

Publication

Wiedensohler et al. AMT 2012

>> Mobility particle size spectrometers: harmonization of technical standards and data structure to facilitate high quality long-term observations of atmospheric particle number size distributions

Wiedensohler et al. AST 2018

>> Mobility particle size spectrometers: Calibration procedures and measurement uncertainties

S.Pfeifer et al. AMT 2014

>> A fast and easy-to-implement inversion algorithm for mobility particle size spectrometers considering particle number size distribution information outside of the detection range

last update June 2021

MPSS evaluation software

>> WCCAP R-software

last update March 2026

Tutorial Videos

>> TROPOS DMA cleaning tutorial

last update December 2021

Measurement Guidelines

Recommendation

Criteria

Publication

MPSS evaluation

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