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Atmos. Meas. Tech., 4, 1209– 1225, 2011 Atmospheric /4/1209/2011/ doi:10.5194/amt-4-1209-2011 Measurement © Author(s) 2011. CC Attribution 3.0 License. Techniques Detection of HO2 by laser-induced fluorescence: calibration and interferences from RO2 radicals H. Fuchs, B. Bohn, A. Hofzumahaus, F. Holland, K. D. Lu, S. Nehr, F. Rohrer, and A. Wahner ¨ ¨ Institute of Energy and Climate Research: Troposphere (IEK-8), Forschungszentrum Julich GmbH, Julich, Germany Received: 9 February 2011 – Published in Atmos. Meas. Tech. Discuss.: 25 February 2011 Revised: 20 June 2011 – Accepted: 20 June 2011 – Published: 28 June 2011 Abstract. HO2 concentration measurements are widely ac- NO addition and OH detection, interference from these RO2 complished by chemical conversion of HO2 to OH includ- species are suppressed to values below 20 % relative to the ing reaction with NO and subsequent detection of OH by HO2 detection sensitivity. The HO2 conversion efficiency laser-induced fluorescence. RO2 radicals can be converted is also smaller by a factor of four, but this is still sufficient to OH via a similar radical reaction sequence including re- for atmospheric HO2 concentration measurements for a wide action with NO, so that they are potential interferences for range of conditions. HO2 measurements. Here, the conversion efficiency of var- ious RO2 species to HO2 is investigated. Experiments were conducted with a radical source that produces OH and HO2 by water photolysis at 185 nm, which is frequently used for