Quality Assurance Guidance Documents

QA Handbook for Air Pollution Measurement Systems:
"Volume I: A Field Guide to Environmental Quality Assurance,"
EPA-600/R-94/038a, April 1994 (PDF) (54pp, 1.1 MB)

QA Handbook for Air Pollution Measurement Systems:
"Volume II: Ambient Air Quality Monitoring Program"
EPA-454/B-08-003, December 2008 - Full Document (PDF) (309pp, 4.7 MB)

Note: The US EPA is in the process of reviewing/revising Volume II of the QA Handbook and welcomes your comments. We have created a QA review page with each section of the current handbook in Microsoft Word format. Feel free to make changes to the documents and send your revised versions to Mike Papp at papp.michael@epa.gov.

QA Handbook for Air Pollution Measurement Systems:
"Volume III: Stationary Source Specific Methods"

QA Handbook for Air Pollution Measurement Systems:
"Volume IV: Meteorological Measurements Version 2.0"
EPA-454/B-08-002, March 2008(PDF) (191pp, 3.7 MB)
- Calibrating a tipping bucket rain gauge - (wmv video ) (29 MB) - 4/18/07
- Calibrating a temperature monitoring system - (wmv video ) (46 MB) - 4/18/07
- Calibrating a cup anemometer and vane system - (wmv video ) (88 MB) - 4/18/07
- Calibrating a propeller anemometer and vane system - (wmv video ) (81 MB) - 4/18/07

QA Handbook for Air Pollution Measurement Systems:
"Volume V: Precipitation Measurement Systems"

Quality Assurance Guidance Documents

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