Light absorption by aerosols contributes to solar radiative forcing through absorption of solar
radiation and heating of the absorbing aerosol layer. Besides the direct radiative effect, the …

Produced from incomplete combustion of biomass and fossil fuel in the absence of oxygen,
black carbon (BC) is the collective term for a range of carbonaceous substances …

Vegetation fire residues of various kinds of plant materials were analyzed for black carbon
(BC) and the corresponding hydrogen. These data clearly show that BC can be defined as …

As the world's population rises, there is increasing evidence that human activities are having
a significant impact on the weather and climate, from a local to global scale. Human Impacts …

A global inventory has been constructed for emissions of black carbon from fossil fuel
combustion and biomass burning. This inventory has been implemented in a three …

Clay samples from three Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary sites contain 0.36 to 0.58 percent
graphitic carbon, mainly as fluffy aggregates of 0.1 to 0.5 micrometers—apparently a …

For the first time, a spatial and monthly inventory has been constructed for carbonaceous
particles emitted by boreal and temperate wildfires in forests, shrublands, and grasslands …

As part of the FOS-DECAFE experiment at Lamto (Ivory Coast) in January 1991, various
aerosol samples were collected at ground level near prescribed fires or under local …

The notion that smoke from fires started by nuclear explosions could alter the Earth's
climate1 is supported by quantitative models of climate2–5, 27 showing that severe cooling …

The latest understanding of nuclear winter is reviewed. Considerable progress has been
made in quantifying the production and injection of soot by large-scale fires, the regional …