Aerosol and monsoon climate interactions over Asia

Z Li, WKM Lau, V Ramanathan, G Wu… - Reviews of …, 2016‏ - Wiley Online Library
The increasing severity of droughts/floods and worsening air quality from increasing
aerosols in Asia monsoon regions are the two gravest threats facing over 60% of the world …

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 …

[كتاب][B] The Hindu Kush Himalaya assessment: mountains, climate change, sustainability and people

P Wester, A Mishra, A Mukherji, AB Shrestha - 2019‏ - library.oapen.org
This open access volume is the first comprehensive assessment of the Hindu Kush
Himalaya (HKH) region. It comprises important scientific research on the social, economic …

Formation of urban fine particulate matter

R Zhang, G Wang, S Guo, ML Zamora, Q Ying… - Chemical …, 2015‏ - ACS Publications
Urban air pollution represents one of the greatest environmental challenges facing mankind
in the 21st century. 1, 2 Noticeably, many develo** countries, such as China and India …

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 …

Megacities, air quality and climate

A Baklanov, LT Molina, M Gauss - Atmospheric Environment, 2016‏ - Elsevier
The rapid urbanization and growing number of megacities and urban complexes requires
new types of research and services that make best use of science and available technology …

[HTML][HTML] Nitrate radicals and biogenic volatile organic compounds: oxidation, mechanisms, and organic aerosol

NL Ng, SS Brown, AT Archibald, E Atlas… - Atmospheric …, 2017‏ - acp.copernicus.org
Oxidation of biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOC) by the nitrate radical (NO 3)
represents one of the important interactions between anthropogenic emissions related to …

Who adopts improved fuels and cookstoves? A systematic review

JJ Lewis, SK Pattanayak - Environmental health perspectives, 2012‏ - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Background: The global focus on improved cookstoves (ICSs) and clean fuels has increased
because of their potential for delivering triple dividends: household health, local …

Global and regional climate changes due to black carbon

V Ramanathan, G Carmichael - Nature geoscience, 2008‏ - nature.com
Black carbon in soot is the dominant absorber of visible solar radiation in the atmosphere.
Anthropogenic sources of black carbon, although distributed globally, are most concentrated …