Review of brown carbon aerosols in China: pollution level, optical properties, and emissions

Q Wang, Y Zhou, N Ma, Y Zhu, X Zhao… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Brown carbon (BrC) has been recognized as an important contributor to global warming due
to its absorption of solar radiation with strong wavelength dependence. While early studies …

[PDF][PDF] Tropical and boreal forest–atmosphere interactions: a review

P Artaxo, HC Hansson, MO Andreae, J Bäck… - Tellus, Series B …, 2022 - pure.mpg.de
Tropical, temperate, and boreal forests are critical components of the climate system, and
the ecosystem services they provide are essential for our society (Bona n et al., 1992, Bonan …

[PDF][PDF] Land–climate interactions

ÉL Davin - 2022 - boris.unibe.ch
Executive summary Land and climate interact in complex ways through changes in forcing
and multiple biophysical and biogeochemical feedbacks across different spatial and …

Global organic and inorganic aerosol hygroscopicity and its effect on radiative forcing

ML Pöhlker, C Pöhlker, J Quaas, J Mülmenstädt… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The climate effects of atmospheric aerosol particles serving as cloud condensation nuclei
(CCN) depend on chemical composition and hygroscopicity, which are highly variable on …

African biomass burning is a substantial source of phosphorus deposition to the Amazon, Tropical Atlantic Ocean, and Southern Ocean

AE Barkley, JM Prospero… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
The deposition of phosphorus (P) from African dust is believed to play an important role in
bolstering primary productivity in the Amazon Basin and Tropical Atlantic Ocean (TAO) …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of biomass burning aerosols on radiation, clouds, and precipitation over the Amazon: relative importance of aerosol–cloud and aerosol–radiation …

L Liu, Y Cheng, S Wang, C Wei… - Atmospheric …, 2020 - acp.copernicus.org
Biomass burning (BB) aerosols can influence regional and global climate through
interactions with radiation, clouds, and precipitation. Here, we investigate the impact of BB …

Characterizing and quantifying African dust transport and deposition to South America: Implications for the phosphorus budget in the Amazon Basin

JM Prospero, AE Barkley, CJ Gaston… - Global …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Soils in the Amazon Basin are deficient in phosphorus, essential to soil fertility.
Previous studies suggested that African mineral dust deposited to Amazonian soils served …

African biomass burning affects aerosol cycling over the Amazon

BA Holanda, MA Franco, D Walter, P Artaxo… - … Earth & Environment, 2023 - nature.com
Smoke from vegetation fires affects air quality, atmospheric cycling, and the climate in the
Amazon rain forest. A major unknown has remained the quantity of long-range transported …

[HTML][HTML] Long-term observations of cloud condensation nuclei over the Amazon rain forest–Part 2: Variability and characteristics of biomass burning, long-range …

ML Pöhlker, F Ditas, J Saturno, T Klimach… - Atmospheric …, 2018 - acp.copernicus.org
Size-resolved measurements of atmospheric aerosol and cloud condensation nuclei (CCN)
concentrations and hygroscopicity were conducted over a full seasonal cycle at the remote …

[HTML][HTML] Influx of African biomass burning aerosol during the Amazonian dry season through layered transatlantic transport of black carbon-rich smoke

BA Holanda, ML Pöhlker, D Walter… - Atmospheric …, 2020 - acp.copernicus.org
Black carbon (BC) aerosols influence the Earth's atmosphere and climate, but their
microphysical properties, spatiotemporal distribution, and long-range transport are not well …