Personal Black Carbon measurements Belgium

Title: Personal Black Carbon (BC) measurements<br> Size: 45 Mb Year: 2013 Content: This dataset contains raw readouts from portable BC monitors (microaethalometers AE51, Aethlabs) that were carried by 59 volunteers (4 male, 55 female) in the vicinity of two cities in the north of Belgium (Antwerp coded UZA, and Genk coded ZOL). The campaign was set-up by Tijs Louwies, Luc Int Panis and Patrick De Boever (Hasselt University Belgium and Flemish Institute for Technological research, both in Belgium). Structure: The data for each location (UZA, ZOL) are in different folders. There are subfolders for each of the 59 volunteers. There were 23 volunteers in UZA (7 in the first period, 4 in the second period and 12 in the third period) and 36 in ZOL, 12 in each period). Each volunteer carried a device for a week in three different periods in the year 2013. Both the raw data (*.dat files) and the Microsoft Excel-version are provided for each period in a different subfolder. Before and after each period, all devices were co-located so compare their reading and derive correction factors for technical biases. Each sheet in the Microsoft Excel file contains a header including: Device ID = AE51-xx-xxx-xxxx Application version = 1.2.0.1 Flow = xx mlpm (flow rate of the air inlet in milliliter per minute) TimeBase = xx in seconds (rate at which data was recorded) The data contains columns for: Date(yyyy/MM/dd) Time (hh:mm:ss) Ref Sen ATN (attenuation) Flow (air flow rate in milliliter per minute) Temp (temperature in centigrade) Status Battery BC (black carbon concentration in nanograms per cubic meter (ng/m³) This data was used in peer-reviewed publications: Louwies et al. DNA hypomethylation in association with internal and external markers of traffic exposure in a panel of healthy adults, April 2018, Air Quality Atmosphere &amp; Health. DOI: 10.1007/s11869-018-0574-4