Apportionment of black and brown carbon spectral absorption sources in the urban environment of Athens, Greece, during winter

DG Kaskaoutis, G Grivas, I Stavroulas… - Science of The Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
This study examines the spectral properties and source characteristics of absorbing
aerosols (BC: Black Carbon; BrC: Brown Carbon, based on aethalometer measurements) in …

Aging of biomass burning emissions in the Indo-Gangetic Plain outflow: Implications for black carbon light-absorption enhancement

SK Kompalli, SS Babu, TC Ajith, KK Moorthy… - Atmospheric …, 2023 - Elsevier
Recent studies worldwide have demonstrated that coating on atmospheric black carbon
(BC) aerosol enhances its absorption potential. However, studies quantifying the light …

Optical properties of aerosol brown carbon (BrC) in the eastern Indo-Gangetic Plain

A Rana, S Dey, P Rawat, A Mukherjee, J Mao… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
We report here measurements of aerosol black carbon (BC) and aqueous and methanol-
extractable brown carbon (BrC aq and BrC me) from a receptor location in the eastern Indo …

An aerosol optical module with observation‐constrained black carbon properties for global climate models

G Chen, J Wang, Y Wang, J Wang, Y Jin… - Journal of Advances …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Atmospheric black carbon (BC) aerosols have been long‐lasting uncertain components in
environmental and climate studies. Global climate models (GCMs) potentially overestimate …

Mobility, bacterial hosts, and risks of antibiotic resistome in submicron bioaerosols from a full-scale wastewater treatment plant

T Yang, X Wang, L Jiang, X Hui, X Bi, X Zheng… - Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Antibiotic resistome could be loaded by bioaerosols and escape from wastewater or sludge
to atmosphere environments. However, until recently, their profile, mobility, bacterial hosts …

Sources and atmospheric processing of brown carbon and HULIS in the Indo-Gangetic Plain: Insights from compositional analysis

A Mukherjee, S Dey, A Rana, S Jia, S Banerjee… - Environmental …, 2020 - Elsevier
We present here spectroscopic compositional analysis of brown carbon (BrC) and humic-
like substances (HULIS) in the Indian context under varying conditions of source emissions …

[HTML][HTML] Mixing state of refractory black carbon aerosol in the South Asian outflow over the northern Indian Ocean during winter

SK Kompalli, SNS Babu, KK Moorthy… - Atmospheric …, 2021 - acp.copernicus.org
Regional climatic implications of aerosol black carbon (BC), which has a wide variety of
anthropogenic sources in large abundance, are well recognized over South Asia. Significant …

Optical source apportionment of aqueous brown carbon (BrC) on a daytime and nighttime basis in the eastern Indo-Gangetic Plain (IGP) and insights from 13C and …

S Dey, P Ghosh, P Rawat, N Choudhary, A Rai… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
This study reports day-night and seasonal variations of aqueous brown carbon (BrC aq) and
constituent humic-like substances (HULIS)(neutral and acidic HULIS: HULIS-n and HULIS …

Brown carbon aerosols in the Indo-Gangetic Plain outflow: insights from excitation emission matrix (EEM) fluorescence spectroscopy

S Dey, A Mukherjee, AJ Polana, A Rana… - … Science: Processes & …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
We report the first characterization of the aerosol brown carbon (BrC) composition in the
Indian context using excitation emission matrix (EEM) fluorescence spectroscopy coupled …

Seasonal variations in aerosol acidity and its driving factors in the eastern Indo-Gangetic Plain: A quantitative analysis

B Sharma, S Jia, AJ Polana, MS Ahmed, RR Haque… - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
This study employs ISORROPIA-II for the evaluation of aerosol acidity and quantification of
contributions from chemical species and meteorological parameters to acidity variation in …