ATom observations of new particle formation in the tropical upper troposphere. The role of convection and nucleation mechanisms

Agnieszka Kupc1, Christina Williamson2, Anna Lily Hodshire3, Jeffrey R Pierce4, Eric A Ray5, Karl D Froyd6, Mathews Richardson7, Bernadett Weinzierl8, Maximilian Dollner9, Frank Erdesz7, Thaopaul V Bui10, Glenn S Diskin11 and Charles A Brock12, (1)NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, United States, (2)CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)Colorado State University, Energy Institute, Fort Collins, United States, (4)Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, United States, (5)NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Chemical Sciences Division, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)CIRES, Boulder, United States, (7)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (8)Centreville, MD, United States, (9)Los Alamos, NM, United States, (10)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, United States, (11)NASA Langley Research Center, Chemistry and Dynamics Branch, Hampton, United States, (12)NOAA, Chemical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, United States