The Moravian-Silesian region of the Czech Republic with its capital city Ostrava is a European air pollution hot spot for airborne particulate matter (PM). Therefore, the spatiotemporal variability assessment of source contributions to aerosol particles is essential for the successful abatement strategies implementation. Positive Matrix Factorization (PMF) was applied to highly-time resolved PM0.15-1.15 chemical composition (1 h resolution) and particle number size distribution (PNSD, 14 nm - 10 μm) data measured at the suburban (Ostrava-Plesná) and urban (Ostrava-Radvanice) residential receptor sites in parallel during an intensive winter campaign. Diel patterns, meteorological variables, inorganic and organic markers, and associations between the chemical composition factors and PNSD factors were used to identify the pollution sources and their origins (local, urban agglomeration and regional). The source apportionment analysis resolved six and four PM0.15-1.15 sources in Plesná and Radvanice, respectively. In Plesná, local residential combustion sources (coal and biomass combustion) followed by regional combustion sources (residential heating, metallurgical industry) were the main contributors to PM0.15-1.15. In Radvanice, local residential combustion and the metallurgical industry were the most important PM0.15-1.15 sources. Aitken and accumulation mode particles emitted by local residential combustion sources along with common urban sources (residential heating, industry and traffic) were the main contributors to the particle number concentration (PNC) in Plesná. Additionally, accumulation mode particles from local residential combustion sources and regional pollution dominated the particle volume concentration (PVC). In Radvanice, local industrial sources were the major contributors to PNC and local coal combustion was the main contributor to PVC. The source apportionment results from the complementary datasets elucidated the relevance of highly time-resolved parallel measurements at both receptor sites given the specific meteorological conditions produced by the regional orography. These results are in agreement with our previous studies conducted at this site. Graphical abstract.

Air Quality Research Center University of California Davis One Shields Ave Davis CA 95616 5270 USA

Center for Air Resources Engineering and Science Clarkson University Potsdam NY 13699 5708 USA

Department of Aerosol Chemistry and Physics Institute of Chemical Process Fundamentals of the CAS v v i Rozvojová 1 135 165 02 Prague 6 Czech Republic

Department of Public Health Sciences University of Rochester Medical Center 265 Crittenden Boulevard Rochester NY 14642 0708 USA

Institute for Environmental Studies Faculty of Science Charles University Benátská 2 128 01 Prague 2 Czech Republic

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