The last decade has seen tremendous advances in atmospheric aerosol particle research
that is often performed in the context of climate and global change science. Biomass …

Light absorption by aerosols contributes to solar radiative forcing through absorption of solar
radiation and heating of the absorbing aerosol layer. Besides the direct radiative effect, the …

The Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET) has provided highly accurate, ground-truth
measurements of the aerosol optical depth (AOD) using Cimel Electronique Sun–sky …

Biomass burning (BB) is the second largest source of trace gases and the largest source of
primary fine carbonaceous particles in the global troposphere. Many recent BB studies have …

Abstract The Deep Blue (DB) algorithm has been used to retrieve aerosol optical depth
(AOD) and Ångström exponent (AE) over land from multiple satellite instruments, including …

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 …

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 …

Aerosols affect the Earth's energy budget directly by scattering and absorbing radiation and
indirectly by acting as cloud condensation nuclei and, thereby, affecting cloud properties …

Increasing wildfire activity in recent decades, partially related to extended droughts, along
with concern over potential impacts of future climate change on fire activity has resulted in …

Elemental-, equivalent black-and refractory black-carbon are terms that have been defined
in order to dissect the more general term, black carbon, into its component parts related to its …