Tropospheric anthropogenic aerosols contribute the second-largest forcing to climate
change, but with high uncertainty owing to their spatio-temporal variability and complicated …

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 …

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 …

Over the last two decades, our understanding of soot formation has evolved from an
empirical, phenomenological description to an age of quantitative modeling for at least small …

Abstract The Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) has developed a coupled
general circulation model (CM3) for the atmosphere, oceans, land, and sea ice. The goal of …

This report is the first complete assessment of the science of climate change since Working
Group I (WGI) of the IPCC produced its second report Climate Change 1995: The Science of …

The optical properties of the light-absorbing, carbonaceous substance often called
“soot,”“black carbon,” or “carbon black" have been the subject of some debate. These …

We present a global tabulation of black carbon (BC) and primary organic carbon (OC)
particles emitted from combustion. We include emissions from fossil fuels, biofuels, open …

Aerosols affect the Earth's temperature and climate by altering the radiative properties of the
atmosphere. A large positive component of this radiative forcing from aerosols is due to …

This paper reviews the many developments in estimates of the direct and indirect global
annual mean radiative forcing due to present‐day concentrations of anthropogenic …