Black carbon absorption at the global scale is affected by particle-scale diversity in composition

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Fierce, Laura ^a,b   Bond, Tami C ^c   Bauer, Susanne E ^d,e   Mena, Francisco ^c   Riemer, Nicole ^f  

^a BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^d NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

^e Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLACK CARBON;

ABSORPTION; AEROSOL; BLACK CARBON; MAGNITUDE; PARTICLE SIZE; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ABSORPTION; AEROSOL; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; HUMIDITY; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MORPHOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; SIMULATION;

EID: 84985918289     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms12361     Document Type: Article

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