Assessing the climatic benefits of black carbon mitigation

RE Kopp, DL Mauzerall - Proceedings of the National …, 2010 - National Acad Sciences
… One recent study (1) estimated that the RF of black carbon (… radiative properties: black
carbon and organic carbon (OC). … ) of fossil fuels and biofuels and open biomass burning (BB) (…

… contribution of fossil fuel and biomass combustion aerosols deposited at Summit, Greenland through isotopic and molecular characterization of insoluble carbon

JF Slater, LA Currie, JE Dibb, BA Benner Jr - Atmospheric Environment, 2002 - Elsevier
… The EC snowpit concentrations in this work are slightly higher than other reported EC (black
carbon) measurements of snow, firn, and ice in Greenland (Table 1). This discrepancy could …

Chemical bonding and structure of black carbon reference materials and individual carbonaceous atmospheric aerosols

RJ Hopkins, AV Tivanski, BD Marten… - Journal of Aerosol …, 2007 - Elsevier
… The carbon-to-oxygen ratios and graphitic nature of a range of black carbon standard …
However, the influence of fuel and burn conditions on biomass burn particulate matter is not …

Global and regional climate changes due to black carbon

V Ramanathan, G Carmichael - Nature geoscience, 2008 - nature.com
… 4), with about 20% from biofuels, 40% from fossil fuels and 40% from open biomass burning.
The uncertainty in the published estimates for BC emissions is a factor of two to five on …

Public health and components of particulate matter: The changing assessment of black carbon

TJ Grahame, R Klemm… - Journal of the Air & Waste …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
… a public health standard for airborne black carbon (BC). In … eg, residential burning of biomass
and coal without controls, … scientific assessments of black carbon/elemental carbon (BC/…

Vegetation fires in the himalayan region–Aerosol load, black carbon emissions and smoke plume heights

KP Vadrevu, E Ellicott, L Giglio, KVS Badarinath… - Atmospheric …, 2012 - Elsevier
… , agricultural residue burning, forest fires, and fossil fuel combustion. Most importantly, black
carbon (BC) emissions from biomass burning can significantly alter the radiative balance by …

Black (pyrogenic) carbon: a synthesis of current knowledge and uncertainties with special consideration of boreal regions

CM Preston, MWI Schmidt - Biogeosciences, 2006 - bg.copernicus.org
… chromatography to quantify the molecular markers of black carbon. … biomass burning,
including biomass fuels, are estimated at 5–6 Tg BC y−1, almost as high as those from fossil fuels (…

Outdoor, indoor, and personal black carbon exposure from cookstoves burning solid fuels

GS Downward, W Hu, N Rothman, B Reiss, G Wu… - Indoor …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
… , an overview of the black carbon produced by domestic solid fuel combustion in an area of
… reduce black carbon illustrate the importance of reducing dependence upon solid fuels and …

Predictive model development for aviation black carbon mass emissions from alternative and conventional fuels at ground and cruise

JP Abrahamson, J Zelina, MG Andac… - … science & technology, 2016 - ACS Publications
Black carbon (BC) is used synonymously for nvPM throughout this paper. Aircraft cruise …
jet fuel, a Fischer–Tropsch synthetic fuel, and a biomass fatty acid methyl ester fuel for a gas …

Climate impact of black carbon emitted from energy consumption in the world's regions

MS Reddy, O Boucher - Geophysical Research Letters, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
… As mentioned above, the present study does not include open biomass burning, which is
located in dry regions and results in longer residence times. The atmospheric residence time of …