Scattering and absorbing aerosols in the climate system

J Li, BE Carlson, YL Yung, D Lv, J Hansen… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
Tropospheric anthropogenic aerosols contribute the second-largest forcing to climate
change, but with high uncertainty owing to their spatio-temporal variability and complicated …

Chemistry of atmospheric brown carbon

A Laskin, J Laskin, SA Nizkorodov - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
Organic carbon (OC) accounts for a large fraction of atmospheric aerosol and has profound
effects on air quality, atmospheric chemistry, and climate forcing. The molecular composition …

The" dual-spot" Aethalometer: an improved measurement of aerosol black carbon with real-time loading compensation

L Drinovec, G Močnik, P Zotter… - Atmospheric …, 2015 - amt.copernicus.org
Aerosol black carbon is a unique primary tracer for combustion emissions. It affects the
optical properties of the atmosphere and is recognized as the second most important …

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 …

Biomass burning aerosols in most climate models are too absorbing

H Brown, X Liu, R Pokhrel, S Murphy, Z Lu… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Uncertainty in the representation of biomass burning (BB) aerosol composition and optical
properties in climate models contributes to a range in modeled aerosol effects on incoming …

Recommendations for reporting" black carbon" measurements

A Petzold, JA Ogren, M Fiebig, P Laj… - Atmospheric …, 2013 - acp.copernicus.org
Although black carbon (BC) is one of the key atmospheric particulate components driving
climate change and air quality, there is no agreement on the terminology that considers all …

Evaluation of the absorption Ångström exponents for traffic and wood burning in the Aethalometer-based source apportionment using radiocarbon measurements of …

P Zotter, H Herich, M Gysel, I El-Haddad… - Atmospheric …, 2017 - acp.copernicus.org
Equivalent black carbon (EBC) measured by a multi-wavelength Aethalometer can be
apportioned to traffic and wood burning. The method is based on the differences in the …

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 …

Light absorption by carbonaceous particles: An investigative review

TC Bond, RW Bergstrom - Aerosol science and technology, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
The optical properties of the light-absorbing, carbonaceous substance often called
“soot,”“black carbon,” or “carbon black" have been the subject of some debate. These …

Black carbon or brown carbon? The nature of light-absorbing carbonaceous aerosols

MO Andreae, A Gelencsér - Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2006 - acp.copernicus.org
Although the definition and measurement techniques for atmospheric" black carbon"(" BC")
or" elemental carbon''(" EC") have long been subjects of scientific controversy, the recent …