The California Air Resources Board provides air monitoring and related technical support for the Study of Neighborhood Air near Petroleum Sources (SNAPS) program. The following documents provide the procedures and guidelines used in the performance of these duties.
This Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) describes procedures used by the California Air Resources Board (CARB) Community Air Monitoring Branch (CAMB) to operate the Teledyne Model T101 to measure H2S in ambient air using ultraviolet fluorescence.
This Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) describes procedures used by the California Air Resources Board (CARB) Community Air Monitoring Branch (CAMB) to operate the Elemental/Black Carbon and Organic Carbon Monitor (Model BC-1054, Met One Instruments, Inc.) to measure elemental/black carbon (EC/BC) and organic carbon (OC) levels in ambient air.
This Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) describes procedures used by the California Air Resources Board (CARB) Community Air Monitoring Branch (CAMB) to operate the Picarro G-2401 analyzer for measurements of methane/carbon monoxide/carbon dioxide/water vapor in ambient air.
This Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) describes a method using the XACT 625i continuous ambient multi-metals monitor for continuous determination of metals in ambient particles and a custom designed Automated Data Analysis & Plotting Toolset for quick and easy examination of collected data (Cooper Environment Services, Oregon, U.S.A.).
This Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) describes procedures used by the California Air Resources Board (CARB) Community Air Monitoring Branch (CAMB) to operate a thermal desorption gas chromatograph-flame ionization detection (TD-GC-FID) instrument to measure volatile organic compounds in ambient air.
This Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) describes procedures used by the California Air Resources Board (CARB) Community Air Monitoring Branch (CAMB) to operate the ATEC 3454 Toxic Sampler (Sampler) for the collection of a variety of chemical species in ambient air. Sampled chemical species may include, but are not limited to, carbonyls, hexavalent chromium (Cr6+), glycols, total metals (TM), mercaptans, and volatile organic compounds (VOCs).
