Meteorological dependence of size-fractionated number concentrations of urban aerosol particles

Abstract We utilized a long-term data set of aerosol particle number size distributions (8–400 nm) in the urban background air of Helsinki during 1998–2000. We analyzed the number concentrations of both ultra-fine particles (UFP diameter

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