On the functional form of particle number size distributions: influence of particle source and meteorological variables

Cugerone, Katia; De Michele, Carlo; Ghezzi, Antonio; Gianelle, Vorne; Gilardoni, Stefania

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-4831-2018

Articles | Volume 18, issue 7

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-4831-2018

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-4831-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 18, issue 7

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10 Apr 2018

Research article |

| 10 Apr 2018

On the functional form of particle number size distributions: influence of particle source and meteorological variables

Katia Cugerone, Carlo De Michele, Antonio Ghezzi, Vorne Gianelle, and Stefania Gilardoni

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A subset of OPC data collected in Oga-San Colombano on February 2005 K. Cugerone, C. De Michele, A. Ghezzi, V. Gianelle, and S. Gilardoni http://ecohys.blogspot.it/p/data.html

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The aerosol particle number size distributions (PNSDs) measured in one urban background site (Milan) and in one rural mountainous site (Oga San Colombano) have been studied and compared. Detailed statistical analyses have shown that a common empirical PNSD pattern exists, except for the urban winter data. In order to explain this phenomenon, we analysed the aerosol dynamics by considering the influence of primary aerosol components and the interaction with precipitation and high wind speed.