Observations of particle number size distributions and new particle formation in six Indian locations

Mathew Sebastian1, Sobhan Kumar Kompalli2, Anil Kumar V3, Sandhya Jose4, Babu S.S5, Pandithurai G.3, Sachchidanand Singh4, Rakesh Hooda6, Vijay Soni7, Jeffrey R Pierce8, Ville Vakkari6, Eija Asmi6, Daniel Westervelt9, Antti Hyvärinen6 and Vijay P Kanawade1, (1)University of Hyderabad, Center for Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Hyderabad, India, (2)Vikram Sarabhai Space Center, Thiruvananthapuram, India, (3)Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune, India, (4)National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi, India, (5)Space Physics Laboratory, VSSC, Thiruvananthapuram, India, (6)Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland, (7)India Meteorological Department, New Delhi-110003, India, (8)Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (9)Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, United States