The black carbon cycle and its role in the Earth system

AI Coppola, S Wagner, ST Lennartz, M Seidel… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
Black carbon (BC) is produced by incomplete combustion of biomass by wildfires and
burning of fossil fuels. BC is environmentally persistent over centuries to millennia, sequestering …

Mass absorption efficiency of black carbon from residential solid fuel combustion and its association with carbonaceous fractions

L Zhang, Z Luo, R Xiong, X Liu, Y Li, W Du… - Environmental …, 2021 - ACS Publications
… Atmospheric black carbon (BC) is derived primarily from the incomplete combustion of
fossil and biomass fuels. It is a significant contributor to climate change by altering the global …

Pollutant emissions from biomass burning: A review on emission characteristics, environmental impacts, and research perspectives

K Jiang, R Xing, Z Luo, W Huang, F Yi, Y Men, N Zhao… - Particuology, 2024 - Elsevier
… Global primary PM 2.5 , black carbon and organic carbon emissions from biomass burning
were … Brown carbon emissions from biomass burning attracts growing interests but available …

Variation in concentration and sources of black carbon in a megacity of China during the COVID‐19 pandemic

L Xu, J Zhang, X Sun, S Xu, M Shan… - Geophysical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Black carbon (BC) is a primary aerosol emitted from the incomplete combustion of fossil
fuels and biomass. BC has been considered the second greatest contributor to global warming, …

Variations in Black Carbon concentration and sources during COVID-19 lockdown in Delhi

V Goel, N Hazarika, M Kumar, V Singh, NM Thamban… - Chemosphere, 2021 - Elsevier
… This work investigates the variation in Black Carbon (BC) concentration and its sources (primarily
Fossil Fuel (ff) burning and Biomass Burning (bb)) over Delhi from 18th February to …

Updated global black carbon emissions from 1960 to 2017: improvements, trends, and drivers

H Xu, Y Ren, W Zhang, W Meng, X Yun… - Environmental …, 2021 - ACS Publications
… As discussed above, the main reasons for the higher emissions derived in this study were
higher EFs obtained from field measurements and updated biomass fuel consumption. The …

Spatial distribution and sources of winter black carbon and brown carbon in six Chinese megacities

Q Zhang, Z Shen, T Zhang, S Kong, Y Lei… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
… combustion of low-quality biomass fuels and coal for heating in … strongly influenced by
intensive biomass burning in the winter … Moreover, the study of China biomass burning emission …

Liquefied petroleum gas or biomass for cooking and effects on birth weight

TF Clasen, HH Chang, LM Thompson… - … England Journal of …, 2022 - Mass Medical Soc
… LPG cookstove and fuel (intervention group) or to continue using a biomass cookstove (control …
μm [PM 2.5 ]), black carbon, and carbon monoxide were measured at baseline and twice …

The contribution of black carbon to global ice nucleating particle concentrations relevant to mixed-phase clouds

GP Schill, PJ DeMott, EW Emerson… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
… Assuming the INP characteristics of BC from the burns in this study can be extended to
different biomass-burning fuel types and combustion conditions, this study strongly suggests that …

Black carbon and biomass burning associated high pollution episodes observed at Doon valley in the foothills of the Himalayas

V Prabhu, A Soni, S Madhwal, A Gupta, S Sundriyal… - Atmospheric …, 2020 - Elsevier
… Hence, in this study, we investigate the variation of black carbon mass concentration (BC)
and biomass burning generated black carbon mass concentration (BC bb ) for one year (…