A large population does not have access to modern household energy and relies on solid
fuels such as coal and biomass fuels. Burning of these solid fuels in low-efficiency home …

The last decade has seen tremendous advances in atmospheric aerosol particle research
that is often performed in the context of climate and global change science. Biomass …

This report is the first complete assessment of the science of climate change since Working
Group I (WGI) of the IPCC produced its second report Climate Change 1995: The Science of …

Aerosol radiative forcing is a critical, though variable and uncertain, component of the global
climate. Yet climate models rely on sparse information of the aerosol optical properties. In …

Aerosols affect the Earth's temperature and climate by altering the radiative properties of the
atmosphere. A large positive component of this radiative forcing from aerosols is due to …

The Angstrom wavelength exponent α, which is the slope of the logarithm of aerosol optical
depth (τa) versus the logarithm of wavelength (λ), is commonly used to characterize the …

This comprehensive text describes the atmospheric processes, numerical methods, and
computational techniques required for a scientist to successfully study air pollution and …

We present spectrally resolved optical and microphysical properties of western Canadian
wildfire smoke observed in a tropospheric layer from 5–6.5 km height and in a stratospheric …

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the history and science of major air
pollution issues. It begins with an introduction to the basic atmospheric chemistry and the …

Under the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, no control of black carbon (BC) was considered. Here, it is
found, through simulations in which 12 identifiable effects of aerosol particles on climate are …