This paper presents a review of main research progresses on the aerosol dry deposition experiments and theoretical models over the past few decades, started with the definition of dry deposition velocity. Dry deposition of particles from the atmosphere to the earth is not only dependent on the aerosol size, the aerosol density and the air viscosity, but also affected by the aerodynamic resistance, the viscous resistance and the surface collection resistance, which are related to the micro-meteorological factors such as the atmosphere temperature, the wind speed and the relative humidity. The typical methods for the determination of dry deposition velocity include tracking technique, concentration gradient method and eddy correlation method. The instantaneous three velocity components, turbulent kinetic energy, friction velocity, temperature and eddy diffusion coefficient can be measured by the Ultrasonic Anemometer Thermometer. Aerosol size distribution is commonly obtained by the combined measuring devices (Serial multistage sampler, Aerodynamic Particle Sizer and Scanning Mobility Particle Sizer) due to the wide particle size range. In the parameterization of the particle dry deposition, the physical scheme is based on the Stokes' Law which emphasizes the equilibrium of gravitation, buoyancy and drag force, while the semi-empirical formulae introduce the atmospheric turbulence, the molecular motion and the surface collection mechanism which accounts for particle Brownian diffusion, collision, interception, rebound, thermophoresis and diffusiophoresis. However, the discrepancy between model predictions and field measurements is still significant for a certain particle size range. In view of the open problems in the dry deposition, perspectives on the future research directions and techniques are provided.