Airborne particulate matter monitoring in Kenya using calibrated low-cost sensors

Pope, Francis D.; Gatari, Michael; Ng'ang'a, David; Poynter, Alexander; Blake, Rhiannon

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-15403-2018

Articles | Volume 18, issue 20

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-15403-2018

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-15403-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 18, issue 20

Research article

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26 Oct 2018

Research article |

| 26 Oct 2018

Airborne particulate matter monitoring in Kenya using calibrated low-cost sensors

Francis D. Pope, Michael Gatari, David Ng'ang'a, Alexander Poynter, and Rhiannon Blake

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- AC2: 'Response to reviewers.', Francis Pope, 12 Aug 2018

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Low- and middle-income countries face an increasing threat from poor air quality, stemming from rapid urbanization, population growth, and rises in fuel and motorization use. This paper presents high temporal resolution particulate matter (PM) data, using low-cost sensors, for the exemplar city of Nairobi, Kenya, where PM levels are found to be much greater than WHO recommendations. The study shows that calibrated low-cost sensors can be successfully used to measure PM in cities like Nairobi.