Environmental Science · Vol. 9, Issue 4 · pp. 884–895

Seasonal Variation in Atmospheric Aerosol Sampling Across 632 Sampling Sites

Dumisani Ngema

Phillips Exeter Academy

Abstract

Despite sustained attention from the research community, atmospheric aerosol sampling remains difficult to study outside well-funded laboratories. Our protocol combines graph-theoretic estimation with a lightweight validation pipeline designed to be reproducible by student laboratories. The proposed approach improves on the strongest baseline by 24% while reducing computational cost. We release our data and code to support replication by other student researchers.