The effect of complex black carbon microphysics on the determination of the optical properties of brown carbon

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 613-619

  Liu, Dantong ^a   Taylor, Jonathan W ^a   Young, Dominque E ^a   Flynn, Michael J ^a   Coe, Hugh ^a   Allan, James D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

black carbon; brown carbon; microphysics; Mie; RDG

Indexed keywords

CARBON; FUELS; PHASE MEASUREMENT; PHOTOACOUSTIC SPECTROSCOPY; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

BLACK CARBON; BROWN CARBONS; MICROPHYSICS; MIE; RDG;

OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; BROWN CARBON; MORPHOLOGY; OPTICAL PROPERTY; PARAMETERIZATION; PHYSICAL PROPERTY;

ENGLAND; LONDON [ENGLAND]; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84923632810     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL062443     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. Adachi, K., S. H. Chung, and, P. R. Buseck, (2010), Shapes of soot aerosol particles and implications for their effects on climate, J. Geophys. Res., 115, D15206, doi: 10.1029/2009JD012868.
2. Adler, G., A. A. Riziq, C. Erlick, and, Y. Rudich, (2010), Effect of intrinsic organic carbon on the optical properties of fresh diesel soot, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 107, 6699-6704.
3. Andreae, M. O., and, A. Gelencsér, (2006), Black carbon or brown carbon? The nature of light-absorbing carbonaceous aerosols, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 6, 3131-3148, doi: 10.5194/acp-6-3131-2006.
4. Bergstrom, R. W., P. B. Russell, and, P. Hignett, (2002), The wavelength dependence of black carbon particles: Predictions and results from the Tarfox experiment and implications for the aerosols single scatter albedo, J. Atmos. Sci., 59, 567-577.
5. Bohnenstengel, S. I., et al. (2014) Meteorology, air quality, and health in London: The ClearfLo project, Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc., ISSN 1520-0477, doi: 10.1175/BAMS-D-12-00245.1.
6. Bohren, C. F., and, D. R. Huffman, (1983), Absorption and Scattering of Light by Small Particles, Wiley, Weinheim, Germany.
7. Bonczyk, P. A., and, R. J. Hall, (1991), Fractal properties of soot agglomerates, Langmuir, 7 (6), 1274-1280.
8. Bond, T. C., and, R. W. Bergstrom, (2005), Light absorption by carbonaceous particles: An investigative review, Aerosol Sci. Technol., 40, 27-67.
9. Bond, T. C., G. Habib, and, R. W. Bergstrom, (2006), Limitations in the enhancement of visible light absorption due to mixing state, J. Geophys. Res., 111, D20211, doi: 10.1029/2006JD007315.
10. Bond, T. C., et al. (2013), Bounding the role of black carbon in the climate system: A scientific assessment, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 118, 5380-5552, doi: 10.1002/jgrd.50171.
11. Braun, A., F. E. Huggins, S. Seifert, J. Ilavsky, N. Shah, K. E. Kelly, A. Sarofim, and, G. P. Huffman, (2004), Size-range analysis of diesel soot with ultra-small angle X-ray scattering, Combust. Flame, 137 (1), 63-72.
12. Chakrabarty, R. K., H. Moosmüller, W. P. Arnott, M. A. Garro, J. G. Slowik, E. S. Cross, J. H. Han, P. Davidovits, T. B. Onasch, and, D. R. Wornsop, (2007), Light scattering and absorption by fractal-like carbonaceous chain aggregates: Comparison of theories and experiment, Appl. Opt., 46, 6990-7006.
13. China, S., C. Mazzoleni, K. Gorkowski, A. C. Aiken, and, M. K. Dubey, (2013), Morphology and mixing state of individual freshly emitted wildfire carbonaceous particles, Nat. Comm., 4, 2122, doi: 10.1038/ncomms3122.
14. Cross, E. S., et al. (2010), Soot particle studies-instrument inter-comparison-Project overview, Aerosol Sci. Technol., 44 (8), 592-611.
15. Filippov, A. V., M. Zurita, and, D. E. Rosner, (2000), Fractal like aggregates: Relation between morphology and physical properties, J. Colloid Interface Sci., 229, 261-273.
16. Fuller, K. A., W. C. Malm, and, S. M. Kreidenweis, (1999), Effects of mixing on extinction by carbonaceous particles, J. Geophys. Res., 104 (D13), 15,941-15,954.
17. Huffman, J. A., P. J. Ziemann, J. T. Jayne, D. R. Worsnop, and, J. L. Jimenez, (2008), Development and characterization of a fast-stepping/scanning thermodenuder for chemically-resolved aerosol volatility measurements, Aerosol Sci. Technol., 42, 395-407.
18. Kirchstetter, T. W., T. Novakov, and, P. V. Hobbs, (2004), Evidence that the spectral dependence of light absorption by Aerosols is affected by organic carbon, J. Geophys. Res., 109, D21208, doi: 10.1029/2004JD004999.
19. Kondo, Y., et al. (2011), Emissions of black carbon, organic, and inorganic aerosols from biomass burning in North America and Asia in 2008, J. Geophys. Res., 116, D08204, doi: 10.1029/2010JD015152.
20. Lack, D. A., et al. (2009), Absorption enhancement of coated absorbing aerosols: Validation of the photo-acoustic technique for measuring the enhancement, Aerosol Sci. Technol., 43, 1006-1012, doi: 10.1080/02786820903117932.
21. Lack, D. A., J. M. Langridge, R. Bahreini, C. D. Cappa, and, A. M. Middlebrook, (2012), Brown carbon and internal mixing in biomass burning particles, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 109, 14,802-14,807.
22. Lammel, G., and, T. Novakov, (1995), Water nucleation properties of carbon-black and diesel soot particles, Atmos. Environ., 29 (7), 813-823.
23. Liu, D., et al. (2014), Size distribution, mixing state and source apportionment of black carbon aerosol in London during wintertime, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 14, 10,061-10,084, doi: 10.5194/acp-14-10061-2014.
24. McMeeking, G. R., et al. (2010), Black carbon measurements in the boundary layer over western and northern Europe, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 10, 9393-9414, doi: 10.5194/acp-10-9393-2010.
25. Mishchenko, M. I., L. Liu, and, D. W. Mackowski, (2013), T-matrix modeling of linear depolarization by morphologically complex soot and soot-containing aerosols, J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transfer, 123, 135-144, doi: 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2012.11.012.
26. Saleh, R., et al. (2014), Brownness of organics in aerosols from biomass burning linked to their black carbon content, Nat. Geosci., 7, 647-650.
27. Schnaiter, M., H. Horvath, O. Möhler, K.-H. Naumann, H. Saathoff, and, O. Schöck, (2003), UV-VIS-NIR spectral optical properties of soot and soot-containing aerosols, J. Aerosol Sci., 34 (10), 1421-1444.
28. Schwarz, J. P., et al. (2008), Measurement of the mixing state, mass, and optical size of individual black carbon particles in urban and biomass burning emissions, Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L13810, doi: 10.1029/2008GL033968.
29. Taylor, J. W., J. D. Allan, D. Liu, M. Flynn, R. Weber, X. Zhang, B. L. Lefer, N. Grossberg, J. Flynn, and, H. Coe, (2014), Assessment of the sensitivity of core/shell parameters derived using the single particle soot photometer to density and refractive index, Atmos. Meas. Tech. Discuss., 7, 5491-5532, doi: 10.5194/amtd-7-5491-2014.
30. Vander Wal, R. L., A. Yezerets, N. W. Currier, D. H. Kim, and, C. M. Wang, (2007), HRTEM Study of diesel soot collected from diesel particulate filters, Carbon, 45 (1), 70-77.
31. Wang, X., C. L. Heald, D. A. Ridley, J. P. Schwarz, J. R. Spackman, A. E. Perring, H. Coe, D. Liu, and, A. D. Clarke, (2014), Exploiting simultaneous observational constraints on mass and absorption to estimate the global direct radiative forcing of black carbon and brown carbon, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 14, 10,989-11,010, doi: 10.5194/acp-14-10989-2014.
32. Xiong, C., and, S. K. Friedlander, (2001), Morphological properties of atmospheric aerosol aggregates, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 98 (21), 11,851-11,856.
33. Young, D. E., J. D. Allan, P. I. Williams, D. C. Green, M. J. Flynn, R. M. Harrison, J. Yin, M. W. Gallagher, and, H. Coe, (2014a), Investigating the annual behaviour of submicron secondary inorganic and organic aerosols in London, Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., 14, 18,739-18,784, doi: 10.5194/acpd-14-18739-2014.
34. Young, D. E., J. D. Allan, P. I. Williams, D. C. Green, R. M. Harrison, J. Yin, M. J. Flynn, M. W. Gallagher, and, H. Coe, (2014b), Investigating the two-component model of solid fuel organic aerosol in London: Processes, PM1 contributions, and seasonality, Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., 14, 20,845-20,882, doi: 10.5194/acpd-14-20845-2014.
35. Zhang, R. Y., A. F. Khalizov, J. Pagels, D. Zhang, H. Xue, and, P. H. McMurry, (2008), Variability in morphology, hygroscopicity, and optical properties of soot aerosols during atmospheric processing, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 105, 10,291-10,296, doi: 10.1073/pnas.0804860105.