Passive ozone samplers provide a low-cost alternative for the monitoring of ozone on a weekly basis. This monitoring method involves exposing nitrite coated filters to the environment for a known period of time, and determining the quantities of ozone via the quantity of nitrate produced by the ozone’s interaction with the filters. This method is employed by several national parks and the US Forest Service to determine ozone impacts to tree species and other vegetation.
Portable continuous samplers for ozone are battery powered ozone samplers which take continual measurements of ozone concentrations. These devices are useful in determining hourly ozone concentrations.
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