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 …

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 …

Abstract Purpose of Review The direct radiative effect of brown carbon (BrC) absorption
predicated by climate-modeling studies is highly uncertain, with values ranging between+ …

Atmospheric brown carbon (BrC) is a collective term for light absorbing organic compounds
in the atmosphere. While the identification of BrC and its formation mechanisms is currently …

Sources, optical properties, and chemical composition of atmospheric brown carbon (BrC)
aerosol are uncertain, making it challenging to estimate its contribution to radiative forcing …

Samples of brown carbon (BrC) material were collected from smoke emissions originating
from wood pyrolysis experiments, serving as a proxy for BrC representative of biomass …

Atmospheric aerosols, solid or liquid particles suspended in the atmosphere, range in size
from 1 nm to> 100 μm and come from a wide variety of sources. 1 As such, aerosols have a …

Recent observations suggest that a certain fraction of organic carbon (OC) aerosol
effectively absorbs solar radiation, which is also known as brown carbon (BrC) aerosol …

Brown carbon aerosol consists of light‐absorbing organic particulate matter with wavelength‐
dependent absorption. Aerosol optical extinction, absorption, size distributions, and …

This study provides molecular insights into the light absorption properties of biomass
burning (BB) brown carbon (BrC) through the chemical characterization of tar condensates …