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ArticleEnvironmental science & technology2024

Low-Cost Hourly Ambient Black Carbon Measurements at Multiple Cities in Africa.

Abhishek Anand, N'Datchoh Evelyne Touré, Julien Bahino, Sylvain Gnamien, Allison Felix Hughes, Raphael E Arku, Victoria Owusu Tawiah, Araya Asfaw, Tesfaye Mamo, Sina Hasheminassab and 4 more

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Article in Environmental science & technology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors.

Abhishek AnandCenter for Atmospheric Particle Studies, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-8263-192X
N'Datchoh Evelyne TouréUniversité Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Abidjan 00225, Côte d'Ivoire.
Julien BahinoUniversité Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Abidjan 00225, Côte d'Ivoire.
Sylvain GnamienUniversité Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Abidjan 00225, Côte d'Ivoire.ORCID 0000-0002-3357-3433
Allison Felix HughesUniversity of Ghana, Accra 00233, Ghana.
Raphael E ArkuDepartment of Environmental Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, United States.
Victoria Owusu TawiahDepartment of Meteorology & Climate Science, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi 00233, Ghana.
Araya AsfawInstitute of Geophysics, Space Science and Astronomy, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa 1176, Ethiopia.
Tesfaye MamoInstitute of Geophysics, Space Science and Astronomy, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa 1176, Ethiopia.ORCID 0000-0001-5302-1356
Sina HasheminassabJet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology institution, Pasadena, California 91011, United States.
Solomon BililignDepartment of Physics, North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, North Carolina 27411, United States.
Vaios MoschosDepartment of Physics, North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, North Carolina 27411, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-6251-4117
Daniel M WesterveltLamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, New York, New York 10964, United States.
Albert A PrestoCenter for Atmospheric Particle Studies, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-9156-1094

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

There is a notable lack of continuous monitoring of air pollutants in the Global South, especially for measuring chemical composition, due to the high cost of regulatory monitors. Using our previously developed low-cost method to quantify black carbon (BC) in fine particulate matter (PM

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Air PollutantsCitiesEnvironmental MonitoringParticulate MatterAfricaCarbonSootAir PollutantsCarbonParticulate MatterSootatmospheric black carbonbeta attenuation monitorshourly measurementsimage processinglow-cost monitoringsub-Saharan Africa

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PMID38952258
PMCPMC11256757

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