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 …

Aerosols affect the climate system by changing cloud characteristics in many ways. They act
as cloud condensation and ice nuclei, they may inhibit freezing and they could have an …

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 …

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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 …

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 …

Aerosols that absorb solar radiation may lead to a decrease of low‐cloud cover and liquid‐
water path (LWP), leading to a positive radiative forcing. A large‐eddy model was used to …

The authors have decomposed the anthropogenic aerosol radiative forcing into direct
contributions from each aerosol species to the planetary energy balance through absorption …

Reported values for the absorption cross section of particulate carbon per unit mass range
from under 4 to over 20 m2/g, and the intermediate value of 10 m2/g is used by many as a …

This paper examines the effects on climate and air pollution of open biomass burning (BB)
when heat and moisture fluxes, gases and aerosols (including black and brown carbon, tar …