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Global and regional climate changes due to black carbon [1]

Abstract 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 in the tropics where solar irradiance is highest. Black carbon is often transported over long distances, mixing with other aerosols along the way. The aerosol mix can form transcontinental plumes of atmospheric brown clouds, with vertical extents of 3 to 5 km.

Publication Date: 
23/03/2008
Veerabhadran Ramanathan [2], Gregory Carmichael [3]
Nature Geoscience [4]
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221-227
Tags:
Aerosols [5], Climate Change [6], Climate Science [7], Solar Radiation [8], Atmosphere [9], Climate Impacts [10], Hydrology [11], Global Warming [12], Atmospheric Brown Clouds [13], Fossil Fuels [14], Biofuel [15], Indian Ocean [16], South Asia [17], Africa [18], China [19], Biomass Gasification [20]

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