When siting ambient air monitoring equipment, follow AS 2922-1987. Monitoring sites are classified into three types: peak, neighbourhood or background. When selecting a monitoring site, you need to consider many parameters, including, locality, terrain, meteorology, emission sources, possible chemical or physical interference, availability of services and site security. Try to co-locate meteorological monitoring equipment and ambient air monitoring equipment unless site-representative meteorological data are available from another nearby meteorological monitoring site.
