Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics www.atmos-chem-phys.net 1680-7316 1680-7324 9 6 2009 10.5194/acp-9-1989-2009 http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/9/1989/2009/ http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/9/1989/2009/acp-9-1989-2009.html http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/9/1989/2009/acp-9-1989-2009.pdf 1989 2006 2009-03-20 Peroxy radicals in the summer free troposphere: seasonality and potential for heterogeneous loss A. E. Parker P. S. Monks p.s.monks@leicester.ac.uk K. P. Wyche J. M. Balzani-Lööv J. Staehelin S. Reimann G. Legreid M. K. Vollmer M. Steinbacher Department of Chemistry, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland EMPA, Dubendorf, Switzerland now at: PC2A, Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, Lille, France The sum of peroxy radicals (HO₂+&Sigma;_<i>i</i>R_<i>i</i>O₂) and supporting trace gases were measured on the Jungfraujoch (3580 m a.s.l.) during the late summer of 2005. 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