Meteorological conditions hardly influence measurement strategy and measured respirable dust and quartz concentrations in the industrial minerals sector

Within the IMA-DMP, meteorological conditions did not affect the measurement strategy for dust and quartz and had a small effect on concentrations measured at 153 sites across Europe. Thus, non-random, biased sampling schemes would result in a slight (<10%) overestimation or underestimation of long-term respirable dust and quartz concentration depending on the meteorological conditions, justifying the collection of meteorological data during sampling.