A review of terminology used to describe soot formation and evolution under combustion and pyrolytic conditions

HA Michelsen, MB Colket, PE Bengtsson, A D'anna… - ACS …, 2020 - ACS Publications
This review presents a glossary and review of terminology used to describe the chemical
and physical processes involved in soot formation and evolution and is intended to aid in …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Solar absorption by elemental and brown carbon determined from spectral observations

R Bahadur, PS Praveen, Y Xu… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
Black carbon (BC) is functionally defined as the absorbing component of atmospheric total
carbonaceous aerosols (TC) and is typically dominated by soot-like elemental carbon (EC) …

Absorptivity of brown carbon in fresh and photo-chemically aged biomass-burning emissions

R Saleh, CJ Hennigan, GR McMeeking… - Atmospheric …, 2013 - acp.copernicus.org
Experiments were conducted to investigate light absorption of organic aerosol (OA) in fresh
and photo-chemically aged biomass-burning emissions. The experiments considered …

An analysis of AERONET aerosol absorption properties and classifications representative of aerosol source regions

DM Giles, BN Holben, TF Eck, A Sinyuk… - Journal of …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Partitioning of mineral dust, pollution, smoke, and mixtures using remote sensing techniques
can help improve accuracy of satellite retrievals and assessments of the aerosol radiative …

On the attribution of black and brown carbon light absorption using the Ångström exponent

DA Lack, JM Langridge - Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2013 - acp.copernicus.org
The absorption Ångström exponent (AAE) of externally mixed black carbon (BC Ext), or BC
internally mixed with non-absorbing material (BC Int), is often used to determine the …

[HTML][HTML] The Amazon Tall Tower Observatory (ATTO): overview of pilot measurements on ecosystem ecology, meteorology, trace gases, and aerosols

MO Andreae, OC Acevedo, A Araùjo… - Atmospheric …, 2015 - acp.copernicus.org
The Amazon Basin plays key roles in the carbon and water cycles, climate change,
atmospheric chemistry, and biodiversity. It has already been changed significantly by human …