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 …

Recent developments in atmospheric aerosol measurements are reviewed. The topics
included complement those covered in the recent review by Chow (JAWMA 45: 320–382 …

Low-cost sensors for measuring particulate matter (PM) offer the ability to understand human
exposure to air pollution at spatiotemporal scales that have previously been impractical …

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 …

Data on light absorption by atmospheric particles are scarce relative to the need for global
characterization. Most of the existing data come from methods that measure the change in …

Methods for reducing and quantifying the uncertainties in aerosol optical properties
measured with the TSI 3563 integrating nephelometer are presented. For nearly all …

Two extreme cases of aerosol optics from the Reno Aerosol Optics Experiment are used to
develop a model-based calibration scheme for the 7-wavelength aethalometer. The cases …

In the wet season, a large portion of the Amazon region constitutes one of the most pristine
continental areas, with very low concentrations of atmospheric trace gases and aerosol …

Because of its wide coverage over much of the globe, biomass burning has been widely
studied in the context of direct radiative forcing. Such study is warranted as smoke particles …

Quantification of the black carbon (BC) and brown carbon (BrC) components of source
emissions is critical to understanding the impact combustion aerosols have on atmospheric …