Recent advances in quantifying wet scavenging efficiency of black carbon aerosol

Y Yang, Y Fu, Q Lin, F Jiang, X Lian, L Li, Z Wang… - Atmosphere, 2019 - mdpi.com
Black carbon (BC) aerosol is of great importance not only for its strong potential in heating
air and impacts on cloud, but also because of its hazards to human health. Wet deposition is …

Coalescence scavenging drives droplet number concentration in southern ocean low clouds

L Kang, RT Marchand, R Wood… - Geophysical Research …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Cloud droplet number concentration (Nd) is a key microphysical property that is largely
controlled by the balance between sources and sinks of aerosols that serve as cloud …

Aerosol‐cloud interactions from aviation soot emissions

AN Alsante, MD Cheng - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Current models estimate global aviation contributes approximately 5% to the total
anthropogenic climate forcing, with aerosol‐cloud interactions having the greatest effect …

Improved simulations of global black carbon distributions by modifying wet scavenging processes in convective and mixed‐phase clouds

M Liu, H Matsui - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In‐cloud wet scavenging dominates the wet removal of aerosols in the atmosphere, but is
not well represented in climate models. Aircraft measurements of black carbon (BC) …

[HTML][HTML] Long-range aerosol transport and impacts on size-resolved aerosol composition in Metro Manila, Philippines

RA Braun, MA Aghdam, PA Bañaga… - Atmospheric …, 2020 - acp.copernicus.org
This study analyzes long-range transport of aerosol and aerosol chemical characteristics
based on instances of high-and low-aerosol-loading events determined via ground-based …

Impacts of coal use phase-out in China on the atmospheric environment:(2) public health and global radiative forcing

Y Zhou, J Li, W Ge, J Liu, H Wu, L Zheng, X Wang… - Atmospheric …, 2024 - Elsevier
In the second of two companion papers, we quantify the potential ultimate benefits for public
health and radiative forcing from the phase-out of coal use in China. With the baseline year …

Impacts of springtime biomass burning in Southeast Asia on atmospheric carbonaceous components over the Beibu Gulf in China: Insights from aircraft observations

X Yang, D Ji, J Li, J He, C Gong, X Xu, Z Wang… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Limited by the scarcity of in situ vertical observation data, the influences of biomass burning
in Southeast Asia on major atmospheric carbonaceous compositions in downwind regions …

Investigation of the wet removal rate of black carbon in East Asia: validation of a below-and in-cloud wet removal scheme in FLEXible PARTicle (FLEXPART) model …

Y Choi, Y Kanaya, M Takigawa, C Zhu… - Atmospheric …, 2020 - acp.copernicus.org
Understanding the global distribution of atmospheric black carbon (BC) is essential for
unveiling its climatic effect. However, there are still large uncertainties regarding the …

Impacts of simulated contrail processing and organic content change on the ice nucleation of soot particles

K Gao, ZA Kanji - Geophysical Research Letters, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Soot particles may undergo cloud‐processing during atmospheric transport after which the
particle porosity and surface wettability can be modified. Soot particles therefore show …

Stage-resolved in-cloud scavenging of submicron and BC-containing particles: A case study

Y Yang, Q Lin, Y Fu, X Lian, F Jiang, L Peng… - Atmospheric …, 2021 - Elsevier
Interactions between clouds and black carbon (BC) represent a significant uncertainty in
aerosol radiative forcing. To investigate the influence of cloud processing on the scavenging …