Effect of Atmospheric Background Aerosols on Biological Agent Detectors
Abstract
As part of the Kunsan Focused Effort (KFE), which was a project that sought to develop counter-biological warfare (C-BW) strategies and procedures designed to mitigate the impacts of BW attacks on Air Force operations, this technical report describes a project that examined both historic and contemporary studies related to background aerosol materials and biological weapon (BW) detection systems. The goal was to summarize how current BW detection systems are expected to behave in a non-laboratory environment. This report describes past monitoring programs and their key results. The programs described were selected because their data results were directly applicable to the background problems being analyzed, namely, the nature of background concentrations and fluctuations of aerosol materials that are known to adversely affect BW detection systems. This technical report illustrates the modeling effort that was undertaken to determine if it was possible to analytically reproduce aerosol concentrations observed by aerosol particle counter devices.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 01, 2007
- Accession Number
- ADA468827
Entities
People
- Jerry G. Jensen
Organizations
- Leidos