Articles | Volume 17, issue 22
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-13605-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-13605-2017
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15 Nov 2017
Research article |  | 15 Nov 2017

Diurnal and day-to-day characteristics of ambient particle mass size distributions from HR-ToF-AMS measurements at an urban site and a suburban site in Hong Kong

Berto Paul Lee, Hao Wang, and Chak Keung Chan

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The size of atmospheric particles is an important physical property that determines environmental and health effects. We measured the size and chemical composition of particles in two locations in Hong Kong impacted by different predominant sources of particulate air pollutants to characterize how particle size and particle composition vary over different time frames, from changes within a day to long-term changes over weeks, and which processes and sources may have played important roles.
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