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Bounding the role of black carbon in the climate system: A scientific assessment [1]

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. This assessment provides an evaluation of black-carbon climate forcing that is comprehensive in its inclusion of all known and relevant processes and that is quantitative in providing best estimates and uncertainties of the main forcing terms: direct solar absorption, influence on liquid, mixed-phase, and ice clouds, and deposition on snow and ice. These effects are calculated with climate models, but when possible, they are evaluated with both microphysical measurements and field observations. Predominant sources are combustion related; namely, fossil fuels for transportation, solid fuels for industrial and residential uses, and open burning of biomass.

Publication Date: 
15/01/2013
T. C. Bond [2], S. J. Doherty [3], D. W. Fahey & et al [4]
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres [5]
1-286
Tags:
Aerosols [6], Climate [7], Atmosphere [8], Atmosphere Science [9], Carbon Dioxide [10], Biomass Gasification [11], Climate Change [12], Air Pollution [13], India [14], China [15], Fossil Fuels [16], Climate Science [17], Black Carbon [18]

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