Lifecycle of light-absorbing carbonaceous aerosols in the atmosphere

D Liu, C He, JP Schwarz, X Wang - NPJ climate and atmospheric …, 2020 - nature.com
Light-absorbing carbonaceous aerosols (LACs), including black carbon and light-absorbing
organic carbon (brown carbon, BrC), have an important role in the Earth system via heating …

Current status, characteristics and causes of particulate air pollution in the Fenwei Plain, China: A review

JJ Cao, L Cui - 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Particulate air pollution is one of the most important environmental issues confronting China,
especially in northern cities during winter. The Fenwei Plain has been designated as one of …

PM2.5 over North China based on MODIS AOD and effect of meteorological elements during 2003–2015

Y Chen, Y Zhou, X Zhao - Frontiers of Environmental Science & …, 2020 - Springer
Over the past 40 years, PM 2.5 pollution in North China has become increasingly serious
and progressively exposes the densely populated areas to pollutants However, due to …

Contrasting physical properties of black carbon in urban Beijing between winter and summer

D Liu, R Joshi, J Wang, C Yu, JD Allan… - Atmospheric …, 2019 - acp.copernicus.org
Black carbon (BC) is known to have major impacts on both human health and climate. The
populated megacity represents the most complex anthropogenic BC emissions where the …

Investigation of primary and secondary particulate brown carbon in two Chinese cities of Xi'an and Hong Kong in wintertime

Q Zhang, Z Shen, L Zhang, Y Zeng, Z Ning… - Environmental …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Brown carbon (BrC), an aerosol carbonaceous matter component, impacts atmospheric
radiation and global climate because of its absorption in the near-ultraviolet–visible region …

Liquid-liquid phase separation reduces radiative absorption by aged black carbon aerosols

J Zhang, Y Wang, X Teng, L Liu, Y Xu, L Ren… - … Earth & Environment, 2022 - nature.com
Black carbon aerosols absorb radiation and their absorptive strength is influenced by
particle mixing structures and coating compositions. Liquid-liquid phase separation can …

Chemical characteristics and source apportionment of ambient PM1. 0 and PM2. 5 in a polluted city in North China plain

C Chen, H Zhang, H Li, N Wu, Q Zhang - Atmospheric Environment, 2020 - Elsevier
Handan is a heavily polluted city in the northern China. From 6 to December 31, 2015, PM
1.0 and PM 2.5 samples were synchronously collected for 23.5 h of each day at an urban …

Secondary inorganic aerosol dominated the light absorption enhancement of black carbon aerosol in Wuhan, Central China

H Zheng, S Kong, N Chen, C Wu - Atmospheric Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
High uncertainty in simulating the climate effect of black carbon (BC)-containing particles
can be raised by an important parameter: light absorption enhancement (E abs), which was …

Wintertime optical properties of primary and secondary brown carbon at a regional site in the North China Plain

Q Wang, J Ye, Y Wang, T Zhang, W Ran… - Environmental …, 2019 - ACS Publications
The light-absorbing properties of atmospheric brown carbon (BrC) are poorly understood
due to its complex chemical composition. Here, a black-carbon-tracer method was coupled …

Brown and black carbon emitted by a marine engine operated on heavy fuel oil and distillate fuels: optical properties, size distributions, and emission factors

JC Corbin, SM Pieber, H Czech… - Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
We characterized the chemical composition and optical properties of particulate matter (PM)
emitted by a marine diesel engine operated on heavy fuel oil (HFO), marine gas oil (MGO) …