Optical properties of secondary organic aerosols and their changes by chemical processes

T Moise, JM Flores, Y Rudich - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
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 …

On the attribution of black and brown carbon light absorption using the Ångström exponent

DA Lack, JM Langridge - Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2013 - acp.copernicus.org
The absorption Ångström exponent (AAE) of externally mixed black carbon (BC Ext), or BC
internally mixed with non-absorbing material (BC Int), is often used to determine the …

Ozone depletion and climate change: impacts on UV radiation

AF Bais, RL McKenzie, G Bernhard… - Photochemical & …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
We assess the importance of factors that determine the intensity of UV radiation at the
Earth's surface. Among these, atmospheric ozone, which absorbs UV radiation, is of …

Investigation of black and brown carbon multiple‐wavelength‐dependent light absorption from biomass and fossil fuel combustion source emissions

MR Olson, M Victoria Garcia… - Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Spatial and temporal variability of carbonaceous aerosols: assessing the impact of biomass burning in the urban environment

G Titos, A Del Águila, A Cazorla, H Lyamani… - Science of the Total …, 2017 - Elsevier
Biomass burning (BB) is a significant source of atmospheric particles in many parts of the
world. Whereas many studies have demonstrated the importance of BB emissions in central …

Classification of aerosols over Saudi Arabia from 2004–2016

MA Ali, JE Nichol, M Bilal, Z Qiu, U Mazhar… - Atmospheric …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Knowledge of aerosol size and composition is very important for investigating the
radiative forcing impacts of aerosols, distinguishing aerosol sources, and identifying harmful …

Long-term brown carbon spectral characteristics in a Mediterranean city (Athens)

E Liakakou, DG Kaskaoutis, G Grivas… - Science of the total …, 2020 - Elsevier
This study analyses 4-years of continuous 7-λ Aethalometer (AE-33) measurements in an
urban-background environment of Athens, to resolve the spectral absorption coefficients (b …

Classifying aerosol type using in situ surface spectral aerosol optical properties

L Schmeisser, E Andrews, JA Ogren… - Atmospheric …, 2017 - acp.copernicus.org
Knowledge of aerosol size and composition is important for determining radiative forcing
effects of aerosols, identifying aerosol sources and improving aerosol satellite retrieval …

Impacts of recent decadal changes in Asian aerosols on the East Asian summer monsoon: roles of aerosol–radiation and aerosol–cloud interactions

B Dong, LJ Wilcox, EJ Highwood, RT Sutton - Climate Dynamics, 2019 - Springer
Anthropogenic aerosols (AA) can affect cloud and precipitation through aerosol–radiation
interaction (ARI) and aerosol–cloud interaction (ACI). Over the past few decades …

A new satellite-based global climatology of dust aerosol optical depth

KK Voss, AT Evan - Journal of Applied Meteorology and …, 2020 - journals.ametsoc.org
By mass, dust is the largest contributor to global aerosol burden, yet long-term observational
records of dust, particularly over the ocean, are limited. Here, two nearly global …