Brown carbon and internal mixing in biomass burning particles

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 37, 2012, Pages 14802-14807

  Lack, Daniel A ^a,b   Langridge, Justin M ^a,b   Bahreini, Roya ^a,b   Cappa, Christopher D ^c   Middlebrook, Ann M ^a   Schwarz, Joshua P ^a,b  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate; Forest fire; Tar balls

Indexed keywords

CARBON; ORGANIC MATTER;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; BIOMASS CONVERSION; PARTICULATE MATTER; PHOTOACOUSTICS; POLARIMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION INDEX; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY;

ABSORPTION; AIR POLLUTANTS; BIOFUELS; BIOMASS; COLORADO; FIRES; MODELS, CHEMICAL; PARTICULATE MATTER; SOOT; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 84866285568     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1206575109     Document Type: Article

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