Enhanced light absorption by mixed source black and brown carbon particles in UK winter

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Liu, Shang ^a,b   Aiken, Allison C ^a   Gorkowski, Kyle ^a,c   Dubey, Manvendra K ^a   Cappa, Christopher D ^d   Williams, Leah R ^e   Herndon, Scott C ^e   Massoli, Paola ^e   Fortner, Edward C ^e   Chhabra, Puneet S ^e,f   Brooks, William A ^e   Onasch, Timothy B ^e,g   Jayne, John T ^e   Worsnop, Douglas R ^e   China, Swarup ^h   Sharma, Noopur ^h   Mazzoleni, Claudio ^h   Xu, Lu ⁱ   Ng, Nga L ^i,j   Liu, Dantong ^k   Allan, James D ^k   Lee, James D ^l   Fleming, Zoë L ^m   Mohr, Claudia ^n,o   Zotter, Peter ^p,q   Szidat, Sönke ^r   Prévôt, André S H ^p   more..

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d University of California   (United States)

^e AERODYNE RESEARCH INC   (United States)

^f The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^g BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^h MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^j GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^l UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^m UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^o KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^p PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^q LUCERNE UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES AND ARTS   (Switzerland)

^r UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLACK CARBON; BROWN CARBON; CARBON; FOSSIL FUEL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABSORPTION; BLACK CARBON; CARBON; CLIMATE MODELING; LABORATORY METHOD; LIGHT INTENSITY; MAGNITUDE; PARTICLE SIZE; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; THEORETICAL STUDY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ABSORPTION; AGING; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMBUSTION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; LIGHT ABSORPTION; OXIDATION; PHOTOACOUSTIC SPECTROSCOPY; PLUME; UNITED KINGDOM; WINTER;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84943166860     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms9435     Document Type: Article

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