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. 2018 Oct 27;18(11):3646. doi: 10.3390/s18113646

Table 4.

Performances of the reported IBBCEAS for target gas species in field measurements. * the correlation between IBBCEAS set-up and the commercially analytical instrument.

Different Platforms Light Source Gas Location Date Duration Average Concentration Measured Concentration Range Minimum Detection Limit Temporal Resolution R2 * Ref.
Marine boundary layer Red-LED NO2, NO3, N2O5 Brittany, France September 2006 15 h Not stated NO3 (above 1 ppbv) NO3 (0.25 pptv) 10 s Not stated [56]
Aircraft Red-LED NO2, NO3, N2O5 North Sea and Thames Estuary, UK July 2010 5 h Not stated NO3 (<2–200 pptv)
N2O5 (<2–600 pptv)
NO2 (<0.05–12 ppbv)
NO3 (1.1pptv)
N2O5 (2.4 pptv)
NO2 (5 pptv)
NO3 (1.2 s)
N2O5 (8 s)
NO2 (1 s)
0.99 [52]
Blue-LED NO2 Anhui, China March 2016 36 h ~11.98 ppbv 4–31 ppbv NO2 (95 pptv) 2 s 0.86 [62]
Urban site Red-LED NO3, N2O5 Beijing, China February, May 2016 7 days Not stated NO3 + N2O5 (1 ppbv)
NO3 (up to 50 pptv)
NO3 (2.4 pptv)
N2O5 (2.7 pptv)
1 s Not stated [44]
Blue-LED NO2 Cambridge, UK October 2006 38 h Not stated 3–34 ppbv NO2 (100 pptv) 60 s 0.9982 [58]
Blue-LED NO2 Anhui, China May 2012 7 days Not stated 1–35 ppbv NO2 (9.6 ppbv) 90 s 0.983 [61]
UV-LED HONO, NO2 Anhui, China March 2014 3 days HONO (0.68 ppbv)
NO2 (14 ppbv)
HONO (<0.22–3.49 ppbv)
NO2 (2.86–51.6 ppbv)
HONO (0.22 ppbv)
NO2 (0.45 ppbv)
20 min HONO (0.917)
NO2 (0.937)
[55]
UV-LED HONO Tokyo, Japan January 2016 21days 1.5 ± 1.1 ppbv 0.2–7.1 ppbv HONO (0.2 ppbv) 20 min 0.94 [63]
Suburban site UV-LED HONO, NO2 Tung Chung, Hong Kong May 2012 2 days Not stated HONO (up to~2 ppbv) HONO (0.3 ppbv) 2 min HONO (0.7) [54]
Blue-LED NO2, CHOCHO PRD and YRD regions, China August 2017 3 days Not stated NO2 (2–15 ppbv)
CHOCHO (<28–180 pptv)
NO2 (40 pptv)
CHOCHO (8 pptv)
21 s Not stated [20]