BLACK CARBON - Vielsalm

Comparison between the BC Metone BC1054 monitor and the Magee AE33 monitor for the whole data available in the year 2022.
Concerning BC 1054 monitor, user data files, i.e. the corrected data, are used.

All plots are in dynamic display, so they can be modified (zoom, remove trace, …) for a better exploration of the data

Time series

BC and UV

BC

Linear fit

Model
x = AE33
y = metone BC1054

BC : full data set 2022

April to december

\[\begin{equation} \begin{aligned} y = 0.57 x + 0.0191 \\ R^2 = 0.8 \end{aligned} \end{equation}\]

Removing values higer than 1 µg/m³ on basis of AE33 (x)

\[\begin{equation} \begin{aligned} y = 0.57 x + 0.0192 \\ R^2 = 0.76 \end{aligned} \end{equation}\]

Quick statistics…

##       date                       bc1054_uv        bc1054_bc     
##  Min.   :2022-01-01 00:30:00   Min.   :0.0020   Min.   :0.0020  
##  1st Qu.:2022-04-23 11:30:00   1st Qu.:0.1240   1st Qu.:0.0890  
##  Median :2022-07-28 23:00:00   Median :0.2010   Median :0.1450  
##  Mean   :2022-07-26 00:36:45   Mean   :0.2635   Mean   :0.1774  
##  3rd Qu.:2022-11-02 10:30:00   3rd Qu.:0.3240   3rd Qu.:0.2250  
##  Max.   :2023-02-02 11:00:00   Max.   :2.2180   Max.   :1.3010  
##                                NA's   :2742     NA's   :2742    
##     ae33_uv          ae33_bc      
##  Min.   :-0.065   Min.   :-0.038  
##  1st Qu.: 0.211   1st Qu.: 0.146  
##  Median : 0.345   Median : 0.244  
##  Mean   : 0.427   Mean   : 0.295  
##  3rd Qu.: 0.537   3rd Qu.: 0.380  
##  Max.   : 3.345   Max.   : 2.149  
##  NA's   :5181     NA's   :5181