Lifecycle of light-absorbing carbonaceous aerosols in the atmosphere

D Liu, C He, JP Schwarz, X Wang - NPJ climate and atmospheric …, 2020 - nature.com
Light-absorbing carbonaceous aerosols (LACs), including black carbon and light-absorbing
organic carbon (brown carbon, BrC), have an important role in the Earth system via heating …

From measurements to models: toward accurate representation of brown carbon in climate calculations

R Saleh - Current Pollution Reports, 2020 - Springer
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+ …

Biomass burning aerosols in most climate models are too absorbing

H Brown, X Liu, R Pokhrel, S Murphy, Z Lu… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Uncertainty in the representation of biomass burning (BB) aerosol composition and optical
properties in climate models contributes to a range in modeled aerosol effects on incoming …

Climate forcing and trends of organic aerosols in the Community Earth System Model (CESM2)

S Tilmes, A Hodzic, LK Emmons… - Journal of Advances …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Community Earth System Model version 2 (CESM2) includes three main
atmospheric configurations: the Community Atmosphere Model version 6 (CAM6) with …

Global health and climate effects of organic aerosols from different sources

DS Jo, BA Nault, S Tilmes, A Gettelman… - … science & technology, 2023 - ACS Publications
The impact of aerosols on human health and climate is well-recognized, yet many studies
have only focused on total PM2. 5 or changes from anthropogenic activities. This study …

Water-insoluble organics dominate brown carbon in wintertime urban aerosol of China: Chemical characteristics and optical properties

RJ Huang, L Yang, J Shen, W Yuan… - … science & technology, 2020 - ACS Publications
The chromophores responsible for light absorption in atmospheric brown carbon (BrC) are
not well characterized, which hinders our understanding of BrC chemistry, the links with …

Modeling the global radiative effect of brown carbon: a potentially larger heating source in the tropical free troposphere than black carbon

A Zhang, Y Wang, Y Zhang, RJ Weber… - Atmospheric …, 2020 - acp.copernicus.org
Carbonaceous aerosols significantly affect global radiative forcing and climate through
absorption and the scattering of sunlight. Black carbon (BC) and brown carbon (BrC) are …

Brown carbon from biomass burning imposes strong circum-Arctic warming

S Yue, J Zhu, S Chen, Q **e, W Li, L Li, H Ren, S Su… - One Earth, 2022 - cell.com
Rapid warming in the Arctic has a huge impact on the global environment. Atmospheric
brown carbon (BrC) is one of the least understood and uncertain warming agents due to a …

Review of brown carbon aerosols in China: pollution level, optical properties, and emissions

Q Wang, Y Zhou, N Ma, Y Zhu, X Zhao… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Brown carbon (BrC) has been recognized as an important contributor to global warming due
to its absorption of solar radiation with strong wavelength dependence. While early studies …

Contribution of carbonyl chromophores in secondary brown carbon from nighttime oxidation of unsaturated heterocyclic volatile organic compounds

K Chen, R Mayorga, C Hamilton… - Environmental …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The light absorption properties of brown carbon (BrC), which are linked to molecular
chromophores, may play a significant role in the Earth's energy budget. While nitroaromatic …