Review of brown carbon aerosols: Recent progress and perspectives

J Yan, X Wang, P Gong, C Wang, Z Cong - Science of the Total …, 2018 - Elsevier
Brown carbon (BrC), a carbonaceous aerosol which absorbs solar radiation over a broad
range of wavelengths, is beginning to be seen as an important contributor to global …

Sources, characteristics and climate impact of light-absorbing aerosols over the Tibetan Plateau

S Chen, R Zhang, R Mao, Y Zhang, Y Chen, Z Ji… - Earth-Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Known as the" third pole" and" water tower of Asia", the Tibetan Plateau (TP) is the home to
the largest number of glaciers in the mid-latitudes and one of the most sensitive areas to …

Bounding the role of black carbon in the climate system: A scientific assessment

TC Bond, SJ Doherty, DW Fahey… - Journal of …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Black carbon aerosol plays a unique and important role in Earth's climate system. Black
carbon is a type of carbonaceous material with a unique combination of physical properties …

Sources of black carbon to the Himalayan–Tibetan Plateau glaciers

C Li, C Bosch, S Kang, A Andersson, P Chen… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Combustion-derived black carbon (BC) aerosols accelerate glacier melting in the Himalayas
and in Tibet (the Third Pole (TP)), thereby limiting the sustainable freshwater supplies for …

Carbonaceous aerosols on the south edge of the Tibetan Plateau: concentrations, seasonality and sources

Z Cong, S Kang, K Kawamura, B Liu… - Atmospheric …, 2015 - acp.copernicus.org
To quantitatively evaluate the effect of carbonaceous aerosols on the south edge of the
Tibetan Plateau, aerosol samples were collected weekly from August 2009 to July 2010 at …

Source contributions of urban PM2. 5 in the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei region: Changes between 2006 and 2013 and relative impacts of emissions and meteorology

X Li, Q Zhang, Y Zhang, B Zheng, K Wang… - Atmospheric …, 2015 - Elsevier
Anthropogenic emissions in China have been controlled for years to improve ambient air
quality. However, severe haze events caused by atmospheric aerosols with aerodynamic …

Light‐absorbing impurities enhance glacier albedo reduction in the southeastern Tibetan Plateau

Y Zhang, S Kang, Z Cong, J Schmale… - Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Light‐absorbing impurities (LAIs) in snow of the southeastern Tibetan Plateau (TP) and their
climatic impacts are of interest not only because this region borders areas affected by the …

Atmospheric brown clouds reach the Tibetan Plateau by crossing the Himalayas

ZL Lüthi, B Škerlak, SW Kim, A Lauer… - Atmospheric …, 2015 - acp.copernicus.org
The Himalayas and the Tibetan Plateau region (HTP), despite being a remote and sparsely
populated area, is regularly exposed to polluted air masses with significant amounts of …

Black carbon and mineral dust in snow cover on the Tibetan Plateau

Y Zhang, S Kang, M Sprenger, Z Cong, T Gao… - The …, 2018 - tc.copernicus.org
Snow cover plays a key role for sustaining ecology and society in mountainous regions.
Light-absorbing particulates (including black carbon, organic carbon, and mineral dust) …

Black carbon-induced snow albedo reduction over the Tibetan Plateau: uncertainties from snow grain shape and aerosol–snow mixing state based on an updated …

C He, MG Flanner, F Chen, M Barlage… - Atmospheric …, 2018 - acp.copernicus.org
We implement a set of new parameterizations into the widely used Snow, Ice, and Aerosol
Radiative (SNICAR) model to account for effects of snow grain shape (spherical vs …