Source apportionment of ultrafine particles in urban Europe
Meritxell Garcia-Marlès, Rosa Lara, Cristina Reche, Noemí Pérez, Aurelio Tobı́as, Marjan Savadkoohi, David C. S. Beddows, Imre Salma, Máté Vörösmarty, Tamás Weidinger, Christoph Hueglin, Nikos Mihalopoulos, Georgios Grivas, Panayiotis Kalkavouras, Jakub Ondráček, Naděžda Zíková, Jarkko V. Niemi, Hanna E. Manninen, David C. Green, Anja H. Tremper, Michael Norman, Stergios Vratolis, Evangelia Diapouli, Konstantinos Eleftheriadis, Francisco J. Gómez‐Moreno, Elisabeth Alonso‐Blanco, Alfred Wiedensohler, Kay Weinhold, Maik Merkel, Susanne Bastian, Barbara Hoffmann, Hicran Altuğ, Jean‐Eudes Petit, Prodip Acharja, Olivier Favez, Sebastiao Martins Dos Santos, Jean Philippe Putaud, Adelaide Dinoi, Daniele Contini, Andrea Casans, Juan Andrés Casquero-Vera, Suzanne Crumeyrolle, Eric Bourrianne, Martine Van Poppel, Freja E Dreesen, Sami Harni, Hilkka Timonen, Janne Lampilahti, Tuukka Petäjä, Marco Pandolfi, Philip K. Hopke, Roy M. Harrison, Andrés Alástuey, Xavier Querol
Abstract
for the TR and UB sites, respectively. This abatement is most probably due to the implementation of European emissions standards, particularly after the introduction of diesel particle filters (DPFs) in 2011. However, DPFs do not retain nucleated particles generated during the dilution of diesel exhaust semi-volatile organic compounds (SVOCs). Trends in photonucleation were more diverse, influenced by a reduction in the condensation sink potential facilitating new particle formation (NPF) or by a decrease in the emissions of UFP precursors. The decrease of primary PM emissions and precursors of UFP also contributed to the reduction of urban and regional background sources.