Optical properties of secondary organic aerosols and their changes by chemical processes

T Moise, JM Flores, Y Rudich - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
1. INTRODUCTION Atmospheric aerosols play a key role in the Earth's atmosphere.
Aerosols influence cloud formation and their lifetime, they affect the distribution and amount …

Aerosol light absorption and its measurement: A review

H Moosmüller, RK Chakrabarty, WP Arnott - Journal of Quantitative …, 2009 - Elsevier
Light absorption by aerosols contributes to solar radiative forcing through absorption of solar
radiation and heating of the absorbing aerosol layer. Besides the direct radiative effect, the …

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 …

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 …

Molecular characterization of brown carbon in biomass burning aerosol particles

P Lin, PK Aiona, Y Li, M Shiraiwa, J Laskin… - Environmental …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Emissions from biomass burning are a significant source of brown carbon (BrC) in the
atmosphere. In this study, we investigate the molecular composition of freshly emitted …

Record-breaking aerosol levels explained by smoke injection into the stratosphere

E Hirsch, I Koren - Science, 2021 - science.org
The early months of 2020 showed record-breaking levels of aerosol optical depth (AOD)
over the Southern Hemisphere (SH). Apart from the tropics, monthly AOD values over most …

The absorption Ångström exponent of black carbon: from numerical aspects

C Liu, CE Chung, Y Yin… - Atmospheric Chemistry and …, 2018 - acp.copernicus.org
The absorption Ångström exponent (AAE) is an important aerosol optical parameter used for
aerosol characterization and apportionment studies. The AAE of black carbon (BC) particles …

Brown carbon and internal mixing in biomass burning particles

DA Lack, JM Langridge, R Bahreini… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
Biomass burning (BB) contributes large amounts of black carbon (BC) and particulate
organic matter (POM) to the atmosphere and contributes significantly to the earth's radiation …

Absorption Angstrom Exponent in AERONET and related data as an indicator of aerosol composition

PB Russell, RW Bergstrom, Y Shinozuka… - Atmospheric …, 2010 - acp.copernicus.org
Recent results from diverse air, ground, and laboratory studies using both radiometric and in
situ techniques show that the fractions of black carbon, organic matter, and mineral dust in …