Long‐term trends of the black carbon concentrations in the Canadian Arctic

S Sharma, D Lavoué, H Cachier… - Journal of …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
During the winter and spring the North American Arctic is impacted by anthropogenic black
carbon (BC) in “Arctic Haze” pollution from sources mainly located in Europe and Russia …

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) …

Distant origins of Arctic black carbon: a Goddard Institute for Space Studies ModelE experiment

D Koch, J Hansen - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Black carbon (BC) particles, derived from incomplete combustion of fossil fuels and biomass,
may have a severe impact on the sensitive Arctic climate, possibly altering the temperature …

Development and validation of a black carbon mixing state resolved three‐dimensional model: Aging processes and radiative impact

H Matsui, M Koike, Y Kondo, N Moteki… - Journal of …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
A new two‐dimensional aerosol bin scheme, which resolves both aerosol size and black
carbon (BC) mixing state for BC aging processes (eg, condensation and coagulation) with …

An evaluation of three methods for measuring black carbon in Alert, Canada

S Sharma, WR Leaitch, L Huang… - Atmospheric …, 2017 - acp.copernicus.org
Absorption of sunlight by black carbon (BC) warms the atmosphere, which may be important
for Arctic climate. The measurement of BC is complicated by the lack of a simple definition of …

Climate's dark forcings

MO Andreae, V Ramanathan - Science, 2013 - science.org
The black soot coming out of the tailpipes of diesel trucks is a nuisance familiar to every
highway traveler. Soot also endangers the health of untold numbers of women and their …

Efficacy of climate forcings

J Hansen, MKI Sato, R Ruedy… - Journal of …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
We use a global climate model to compare the effectiveness of many climate forcing agents
for producing climate change. We find a substantial range in the “efficacy” of different …

Source attribution of black carbon and its direct radiative forcing in China

Y Yang, H Wang, SJ Smith, PL Ma… - … Chemistry and Physics, 2017 - acp.copernicus.org
The source attributions for mass concentration, haze formation, transport and direct radiative
forcing of black carbon (BC) in various regions of China are quantified in this study using the …

Aerosol organic carbon to black carbon ratios: Analysis of published data and implications for climate forcing

T Novakov, S Menon, TW Kirchstetter… - Journal of …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Measurements of organic carbon (OC) and black carbon (BC) concentrations over a variety
of locations worldwide have been analyzed to infer the spatial distributions of the ratios of …

Global‐scale seasonally resolved black carbon vertical profiles over the Pacific

JP Schwarz, BH Samset, AE Perring… - Geophysical …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Black carbon (BC) aerosol loadings were measured during the High‐performance
Instrumented Airborne Platform for Environmental Research Pole‐to‐Pole Observations …