CHARACTERIZATION OF SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS OF ELEMENTAL MASS CONCENTRATIONS IN ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS DERIVED FROM DIFFERENT SOURCES

The atmospheric aerosol samples were collected at six representative sites with an 8-stage cascade impactor sampler and analyzed for their elemental mass concentrations by the PIXE analytic method. Based on some indicator elements, the characteristic of size distributions of particles from different sources were obtained. According to these characteristics, we inferred the origins of the ultrafine particles around the Great Wall Station in the Antarctic