EMEP Training course on
Quality assurance, data handling and reporting

The course covered the following topics:

• Daily QA/QC in the laboratory and field
• Data control (checking for outliers, contaminations etc)
• Data reporting in nasa ames format including. flagging etc (bring your measurement data for 2009, and these should be reported to EMEP at the end of the course)
• Data analyses. What does the level tell us of the pollution problem in your country. Looking at episodes, averages etc

Presentations:

• Agenda

• The EMEP programme - Objectives and QA/QC Wenche Aas
• NILU - making a difference for the environment Kjetil Tørseth
• EMEP Unified model - Importance of observations for model evaluation Svetlana Tsyro
• FLEXTRA and EBAS Ann Mari Fjærå
• NASA/Ames data format Anne Hjellbrekke
• Reasoning behind the PM10, EC/OC and levoglucosan analysis at your sites Wenche Aas
• Quality Control - Some examples from NILU Hilde Uggerud
• Quality control of data: Data plots, ion balance Anne Hjellbrekke

• Group picture