The number concentrations and the water soluble ionic concentrations of PM2.5 have measured at Gosan site in Jeju, Korea, from March 2010 to December 2010, to clarify their characteristics. PM2.5 number concentrations vary from 22.57 to 975.65 particles/㎝ 3 with an average value of 240.41 particles/㎝ 3 , which have been recorded evidently high in spring season as compared with those in other season. And the concentrations in small size ranges are greatly higher than those in large size ranges, so the number concentration in the size range 0.25∼0.45 ㎛ has more than 94% of the total number concentration of PM2.5. The major ionic components in PM2.5 are SO4 -(3.64) is greatly higher than the value in urban area due to no large NOx emission sources in the measurement. In addition, the correlation and the factor analysis for the number and the ionic concentrations of PM2.5 are performed to identify their sources. From the Pearson correlation analysis and the factor analysis, it can be suggested that the smaller parts(<0.5 ㎛) of PM2.5 is contributed by anthropogenic sources, but the sources of the remaining larger parts of PM2.5 are not able to be specified sources in this study.
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