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O-cresol Concentration Online Measurement Based On Near Infrared Spectroscopy Via Partial Least Square Regression
Published on: November 8, 2019
Numerical analysis and estimation of the statistical error of differential optical absorption spectroscopy
Abstract:
Differential optical absorption spectroscopy (DOAS) has become a widely used method to measure trace gases in the atmosphere. Their concentration is retrieved by a numerical analysis of the atmospheric absorption spectra, which often are a combination of overlapping absorption structures of several trace gases. A new analysis procedure was developed, modeling atmospheric spectra with the absorption structures of the individual trace gases, to determine their concentrations. The procedure also corrects differences in the wavelength-pixel mapping of these spectra. A new method to estimate the error of the concentrations considers the uncertainty of this correction and the influence of random residual structures in the absorption spectra.
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