Top-of-atmosphere radiative forcing affected by brown carbon in the upper troposphere

Y Zhang, H Forrister, J Liu, J Dibb, B Anderson… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Carbonaceous aerosols affect the global radiative balance by absorbing and scattering
radiation, which leads to warming or cooling of the atmosphere, respectively. Black carbon is …

[HTML][HTML] Aerosol characteristics and particle production in the upper troposphere over the Amazon Basin

MO Andreae, A Afchine, R Albrecht… - Atmospheric …, 2018 - acp.copernicus.org
Airborne observations over the Amazon Basin showed high aerosol particle concentrations
in the upper troposphere (UT) between 8 and 15 km altitude, with number densities …

Vertical profiling of black carbon and ozone using a multicopter unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in urban Shenzhen of South China

C Wu, B Liu, D Wu, H Yang, X Mao, J Tan… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Existing studies on vertical profiling of black carbon (BC) and ozone (O 3) were mainly
conducted in the rural areas, leading to limited knowledge of their vertical distributions in the …

The impact of cloud processing on the ice nucleation abilities of soot particles at cirrus temperatures

F Mahrt, K Kilchhofer, C Marcolli… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Soot particles are generally considered to be poor ice nucleating particles. Involvement of
soot in clouds and their release back into the atmosphere can form residual particles with …

Short Black Carbon lifetime inferred from a global set of aircraft observations

MT Lund, BH Samset, RB Skeie… - Npj Climate and …, 2018 - nature.com
Black Carbon (BC) aerosols substantially affect the global climate. However, accurate
simulation of BC atmospheric transport remains elusive, due to shortcomings in modeling …

Size-related physical properties of black carbon in the lower atmosphere over Beijing and Europe

S Ding, D Liu, D Zhao, K Hu, P Tian… - Environmental …, 2019 - ACS Publications
The size-resolved properties of atmospheric black carbon (BC) importantly determine its
absorption capacity and cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) ability. This study reports …

Black carbon aerosol reductions during COVID-19 confinement quantified by aircraft measurements over Europe

OO Krüger, BA Holanda, S Chowdhury… - Atmospheric …, 2022 - acp.copernicus.org
The abrupt reduction in human activities during the first lockdown of the COVID-19
pandemic created unprecedented atmospheric conditions. To quantify the changes in lower …

Quantifying black carbon deposition over the Greenland ice sheet from forest fires in Canada

JL Thomas, CM Polashenski, AJ Soja… - Geophysical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Black carbon (BC) concentrations observed in 22 snowpits sampled in the northwest sector
of the Greenland ice sheet in April 2014 have allowed us to identify a strong and widespread …

Global radiative impacts of black carbon acting as ice nucleating particles

Z McGraw, T Storelvmo, BH Samset… - Geophysical Research …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Black carbon (BC) aerosols from incomplete combustion generally warm the climate, but the
magnitudes of their various interactions with climate are still uncertain. A key knowledge gap …

Simulating wildfire emissions and plume rise using geostationary satellite fire radiative power measurements: a case study of the 2019 Williams Flats fire

A Kumar, RB Pierce, R Ahmadov… - Atmospheric …, 2022 - acp.copernicus.org
We use the Weather Research and Forecasting with Chemistry (WRF-Chem) model with
new implementations of GOES-16 wildfire emissions and plume rise based on fire radiative …