About the Authors

Pantelis Georgiades

Contributed equally to this work with: Pantelis Georgiades, Ekaterina Ezhova

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Environmental Predictions Department, Climate and Atmosphere Research Centre, The Cyprus Institute, Nicosia, Cyprus

Ekaterina Ezhova

Contributed equally to this work with: Pantelis Georgiades, Ekaterina Ezhova

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research (INAR), Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Meri Räty

Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research (INAR), Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Dmitry Orlov

Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biogeography, Faculty of Geography, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

Markku Kulmala

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research (INAR), Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Jos Lelieveld

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Environmental Predictions Department, Climate and Atmosphere Research Centre, The Cyprus Institute, Nicosia, Cyprus, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany

Svetlana Malkhazova

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biogeography, Faculty of Geography, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

Kamil Erguler

Roles Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ KE and TP also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Environmental Predictions Department, Climate and Atmosphere Research Centre, The Cyprus Institute, Nicosia, Cyprus

Tuukka Petäjä

Roles Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

tuukka.petaja@helsinki.fi

‡ KE and TP also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research (INAR), Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.