Black carbon emissions from biomass and fossil fuels in rural India

IH Rehman, T Ahmed, PS Praveen, A Kar… - Atmospheric …, 2011 - acp.copernicus.org
Black carbon (BC) emission from biofuel cooking in South Asia and its … biomass based cooking
in traditional stoves and diesel vehicles in contributing to high BC and organic carbon (OC…

Light‐absorbing properties of ambient black carbon and brown carbon from fossil fuel and biomass burning sources

RM Healy, JM Wang, CH Jeong… - Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
… The optical properties of ambient black carbon‐containing … to assess the relationship
between black carbon (BC) coating … , and transboundary fossil fuel combustion emissions in the …

Fossil fuel combustion and biomass burning sources of global black carbon from GEOS-Chem simulation and carbon isotope measurements

L Qi, S Wang - Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2019 - acp.copernicus.org
… sources (fossil fuel combustion versus biomass burning) of black carbon (BC) … carbon
isotope measurements of BC around the globe and find that the model reproduces mean biomass

Personal exposures to fine particulate matter and black carbon in households cooking with biomass fuels in rural Ghana

EDS Van Vliet, K Asante, DW Jack, PL Kinney… - Environmental …, 2013 - Elsevier
… Since the major anthropogenic sources of atmospheric black carbon is household combustion
of biomass and coal, and black carbon is regionally distributed with a short atmospheric …

Black carbon sequestration as an alternative to bioenergy

M Fowles - Biomass and Bioenergy, 2007 - Elsevier
… features of black carbon sequestration and uses a high-level quantitative model to compare
the approach with the alternative use of biomass to displace fossil fuels. Black carbon has …

Ambient measurements and source apportionment of fossil fuel and biomass burning black carbon in Ontario

RM Healy, U Sofowote, Y Su, J Debosz, M Noble… - Atmospheric …, 2017 - Elsevier
… to biomass burning aerosol at a specific wavelength, BC ff refers to black carbon mass
apportioned to fossil fuel combustion, BC bb refers to black carbon mass apportioned to biomass

Assessment of biomass burning and fossil fuel contribution to black carbon concentrations in Delhi during winter

UC Dumka, DG Kaskaoutis, S Tiwari, PD Safai… - Atmospheric …, 2018 - Elsevier
… -fuel combustion (BC ff ) and biomass (or wood) burning (BC wb ) to wintertime black carbon
… 72% at 880 nm, indicating an important contribution from biomass burning (28%). The daily-…

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
… burning emissions can be parameterized as a function of the ratio of black carbon to organic
… burn conditions, not fuel type. We conclude that brown carbon from biomass burning can be …

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
… ratio of black carbon to sulphate. Furthermore, we show that fossil-fuel-dominated black-carbon
plumes were approximately 100% more efficient warming agents than biomass-burning-…

Light absorption by organic aerosol emissions rivals that of black carbon from residential biomass fuels in South Asia

A Pandey, A Hsu, S Tiwari, S Pervez… - … & Technology Letters, 2020 - ACS Publications
… laboratory studies of controlled biomass burning. This approach… matter (PM) from residential
biomass combustion in India were 2–… We find that combustion of biomass fuels in India is the …