Fig. 5.
Aerosol particle number concentrations. Measured and modelled particle number concentrations at the Station for Measuring Ecosystem-Atmosphere Relations II (SMEAR II) from the periods 15–25 May 2013 and 15 April to 5 May 2014. Panels a and b show the measured and modelled particle number size distributions respectively. Panels c, d and e show the measured and modelled median diurnal cycles of particle number concentrations in the nucleation mode (3–25 nm in diameter, PN3–25 nm), Aitken mode (25–100 nm in diameter, PN25–100 nm), and accumulation mode (100–1000 nm in diameter, PN100-1000 nm) respectively. The shaded areas illustrate the measured (grey) and modelled (pink) ranges within the 25th and 75th percentiles. The particle number size distributions were measured with a differential mobility particle sizer (DMPS)