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The important sources of air pollution can be identified with the installation of ambient air quality monitoring station. The sampling with monitoring station can provide current status of air quality of that particular area. This chapter describes the different measuring and analytical technique for monitoring of air quality. The different method for the collection of pollutant is also explained. The types of the gaseous monitoring techniques were described in Sects. 2.3 and its subsections. The different measurement techniques of particulate pollutants were explained in Sects. 2.4. The Section 2.5 explained some of the important concepts of data quality assurance and quality control (QA/QC) with reference to the analysis of vapour-phase chemical composition in air.

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  1. Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, 600036, India

    R. Ravi Krishna

  2. Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, 600036, India

    S. M. Shiva Nagendra,  Saraswati & M. Diya

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    S. M. Shiva Nagendra

  2. Department of Urban and Environmental Sociology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ, Leipzig, Germany

    Uwe Schlink

  3. Molecular Systems Biology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ, Leipzig, Germany

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  4. Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, Delhi, India

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Ravi Krishna, R., Shiva Nagendra, S.M., Saraswati, Diya, M. (2021). Air Quality Monitoring and Techniques. In: Shiva Nagendra, S.M., Schlink, U., Müller, A., Khare, M. (eds) Urban Air Quality Monitoring, Modelling and Human Exposure Assessment. Springer Transactions in Civil and Environmental Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5511-4_2

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