Atmospheric optical and radiative effects of anthropogenic aerosol constituents from India

MS Reddy, C Venkataraman - Atmospheric Environment, 2000 - Elsevier
A box model has been used to compare the burdens, optical depths and direct radiative
forcing from anthropogenic PM2. 5 aerosol constituents over the Indian subcontinent. A …

Airborne measurements of gases and particles from an Alaskan wildfire

JD Nance, PV Hobbs, LF Radke… - Journal of Geophysical …, 1993 - Wiley Online Library
Airborne measurements of several gaseous and particulate chemical species were obtained
in the emissions from a wildfire that burned in an old black spruce forest in Alaska during the …

The Measurement of Atmospheric Black Carbon: A Review

Z Zhang, Y Cheng, L Liang, J Liu - Toxics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Black Carbon (BC), the second-largest contributor to global warming, has detrimental effects
on human health and the environment. However, the accurate quantification of BC poses a …

Real-time visualization of smoke for fire safety engineering applications

J Wahlqvist, P Rubini - Fire safety journal, 2023 - Elsevier
Visibility in smoke is a key aspect in terms of safe egress in various fire related situations.
Due to the hazardous nature of fire induced smoke, it is hard to study human behaviour …

Microphysical particle parameters from extinction and backscatter lidar data by inversion with regularization: experiment

D Müller, F Wagner, U Wandinger, A Ansmann… - Applied Optics, 2000 - opg.optica.org
We present effective radius, volume, surface-area, and number concentrations as well as
mean complex refractive index of tropospheric particle size distributions based on lidar …

Satellite measurements of large‐scale air pollution: Measurements of forest fire smoke

RA Ferrare, RS Fraser… - Journal of Geophysical …, 1990 - Wiley Online Library
The transport, optical properties, total mass, and removal of smoke produced by forest fires
in western Canada during late July and early August 1982 are studied using NOAA 7 …

Humidification factors from laboratory studies of fresh smoke from biomass fuels

DE Day, JL Hand, CM Carrico… - Journal of …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Measurements of smoke aerosol humidification factors were performed in a laboratory for
different biomass fuel types and burn conditions. Two nephelometers simultaneously …

Correlations between optical, chemical and physical properties of biomass burn aerosols

RJ Hopkins, K Lewis, Y Desyaterik… - Geophysical …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Aerosols generated from burning different plant fuels were characterized to determine
relationships between chemical, optical and physical properties. Single scattering albedo …

Some optical properties of smoke aerosol in Indonesia and tropical Australia

JL Gras, JB Jensen, K Okada, M Ikegami… - Geophysical …, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
Aerosol light‐scattering coefficient at 530 nm and its hygroscopic growth were determined in
biomass‐burning smoke in the lower atmosphere over Kalimantan and northern Australia …

Atmospheric effects from post-nuclear fires

PJ Crutzen, IE Galbally, C Brühl - Climatic Change, 1984 - Springer
During a large nuclear war, the atmosphere would be loaded with huge quantities of
pollutants, which are produced by fires in urban and industrial centers, cultivated lands …