Warming influenced by the ratio of black carbon to sulphate and the black-carbon source

MV Ramana, V Ramanathan, Y Feng, SC Yoon… - Nature …, 2010 - nature.com
Black carbon is generated by fossil-fuel combustion and biomass burning. Black-carbon
aerosols absorb solar radiation, and are probably a major source of global warming …

Global and regional climate changes due to black carbon

V Ramanathan, G Carmichael - Nature geoscience, 2008 - nature.com
Black carbon in soot is the dominant absorber of visible solar radiation in the atmosphere.
Anthropogenic sources of black carbon, although distributed globally, are most concentrated …

Bounding the role of black carbon in the climate system: A scientific assessment

TC Bond, SJ Doherty, DW Fahey… - Journal of …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Black carbon aerosol plays a unique and important role in Earth's climate system. Black
carbon is a type of carbonaceous material with a unique combination of physical properties …

Top-of-atmosphere radiative forcing affected by brown carbon in the upper troposphere

Y Zhang, H Forrister, J Liu, J Dibb, B Anderson… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Carbonaceous aerosols affect the global radiative balance by absorbing and scattering
radiation, which leads to warming or cooling of the atmosphere, respectively. Black carbon is …

A black-carbon mitigation wedge

AP Grieshop, CCO Reynolds, M Kandlikar… - Nature …, 2009 - nature.com
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Can reducing black carbon emissions counteract global warming?

TC Bond, H Sun - 2005 - ACS Publications
Field measurements and model results have recently shown that aerosols may have
important climatic impacts. One line of inquiry has investigated whether reducing climate …

Weak global warming mitigation by reducing black carbon emissions

T Takemura, K Suzuki - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Reducing black carbon (BC), ie soot, in the atmosphere is a potential mitigation measure for
climate change before revealing the effect of reducing anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) …

Black carbon and brown clouds

J Seinfeld - Nature geoscience, 2008 - nature.com
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Brownness of organics in aerosols from biomass burning linked to their black carbon content

R Saleh, ES Robinson, DS Tkacik, AT Ahern, S Liu… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Atmospheric particulate matter plays an important role in the Earth's radiative balance. Over
the past two decades, it has been established that a portion of particulate matter, black …

Beyond carbon budgets

GP Peters - Nature Geoscience, 2018 - nature.com
The remaining carbon budget consistent with limiting warming to 1.5° C allows 20 more
years of current emissions according to one study, but is already exhausted according to …