Revisions

 

Revision

Date of release

Pages affected

1/2014

February 2014

Ch 4.22 Standard Operating Procedures for thermal-optical analysis of atmospheric particulate organic and elemental carbon

1/2001

November 2001

Ch. 1

Ch. 3.2 to 3.7 (page 3-13 to 3-51)

Ch. 3.10-12 and 4.17-18 New chapters on heavy metals

Ch. 3.13 and 4.19 New chapters on PCBs

Ch. 3.14 and 4.20 New chapters on PAHs – pages

Ch. 5.1 Revised “Job description for EMEP’s NQAM” – page 5-2

Ch. 5.2 New “EMEP Data Quality Objectives (DQO)” – Pages 5-3 – 5-4

Minor changes on pages 3-3, 3-60, 5-5, 5-9, 5-10, 5-12, 5-14, 5-21, 6-14

Ch. 6.4 New flag system – pages 6-9 – 6-13

1/96

29 March 1996

All pages

 

The Chemical Co-ordination Centre of EMEP (CCC) will forward future revisions to EMEP’s National Quality Assurance Managers, to the EMEP participating laboratories and to members of the Steering Body of EMEP. Other scientists will receive the revisions upon request to the CCC. When requiring a revised version, a copy of this page should be enclosed.

 

Preface

This Manual replaces the Manual for Sampling and Chemical Analysis from 1977, which was worked out in EMEP’s start phase. The first revision of this manual came in 1996 where major parts have been rewritten and complemented with methods for more components such as methods for volatile organic components. Many of the methods both for sampling and analysis from the early years were replaced by new and better methods in order to meet today’s more strict requirements to data quality. The Manual was extended with a section on quality assurance, which is based on the Quality Assurance Plan for EMEP.

In 2001 the manual was updated including heavy metals, PCB and PAHs. The present version is extended further including measurements of particulate matter.

In 2014, the manual was updated including Standard Operating Procedures for thermal-optical analysis of atmospheric particulate organic and elemental carbon (EC/OC).

Revisions and extensions in the manual are also expected in the years to come. The newest version is always found on the online homepage of the EMEP manual, www.nilu.no/projects/ccc/manual/

Many scientists have contributed with large or small parts to this Manual. In alphabetic order we have contributions from Torunn Berg, Christian Dye, Jan Erik Hanssen, John Munthe, Jean-Philippe Putaud, Anni Reissell, Jan Schaug, Norbert Schmidbauer, Arne Semb, Kjetil Tørseth, Hilde Thelle Uggerud, Karl Espen Yttri and Wenche Aas. Kristine Aasarød and Lisbeth Berntsen Storaas have put together our typed and handwritten contributions and the many changes in the text into one Manual.

 

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