Particle number (PNC) and black carbon (BC) in European urban air quality networks ETC/ACM Technical Paper 2012/6

This report summarizes and critically evaluates the status of European monitoring of PNC and EBC, in order to provide input to the debate on future air quality monitoring in Europe. This debate should enable improvements in evaluating status and trends in air quality-related health risks and the effects of policies and measures established to protect human health.

Prepared by: ETC/ACM members Mar Viana¹, Xavier Querol¹, Andrés Alastuey¹, Cristina Reche¹, Olivier Favez², Laure Malherbe², Aurélien Ustache², Alena Bartonova³, Hai‐Ying Liu³, Cristina Guerreiro³.
^{1 IDAEA‐CSIC, Spain; 2 INERIS, France; 3 NILU, Norway}

Published by: ETC/ACM, January 2013, 105 pp.