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Environment

Ionicon advances pollution monitoring

by Marc S. Reisch
June 27, 2016 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 94, Issue 26

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Credit: Armin Wisthaler
The smog layer above Seoul, South Korea.
A view of smog over Seoul, South Korea, from an airplane window.
Credit: Armin Wisthaler
The smog layer above Seoul, South Korea.

To measure air pollution over South Korea, a NASA laboratory aboard a DC-8 recently carried proton-transfer-reaction mass spectrometry instruments from the Austrian trace-gas measurement specialist Ionicon. Scientists from the University of Innsbruck and Korea’s National Institute of Environmental Research will use data from the instruments to help improve satellite-based air quality monitoring. NASA is leading the effort, which will ultimately send satellites over the U.S., Europe, and Asia.

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