Black and brown carbon over central Amazonia: long-term aerosol measurements at the ATTO site

Saturno, Jorge; Holanda, Bruna A.; Pöhlker, Christopher; Ditas, Florian; Wang, Qiaoqiao; Moran-Zuloaga, Daniel; Brito, Joel; Carbone, Samara; Cheng, Yafang; Chi, Xuguang; Ditas, Jeannine; Hoffmann, Thorsten; Hrabe de Angelis, Isabella; Könemann, Tobias; Lavrič, Jošt V.; Ma, Nan; Ming, Jing; Paulsen, Hauke; Pöhlker, Mira L.; Rizzo, Luciana V.; Schlag, Patrick; Su, Hang; Walter, David; Wolff, Stefan; Zhang, Yuxuan; Artaxo, Paulo; Pöschl, Ulrich; Andreae, Meinrat O.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-12817-2018

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Black and brown carbon over central Amazonia: long-term aerosol measurements at the ATTO site

Jorge Saturno, Bruna A. Holanda, Christopher Pöhlker, Florian Ditas, Qiaoqiao Wang, Daniel Moran-Zuloaga, Joel Brito, Samara Carbone, Yafang Cheng, Xuguang Chi, Jeannine Ditas, Thorsten Hoffmann, Isabella Hrabe de Angelis, Tobias Könemann, Jošt V. Lavrič, Nan Ma, Jing Ming, Hauke Paulsen, Mira L. Pöhlker, Luciana V. Rizzo, Patrick Schlag, Hang Su, David Walter, Stefan Wolff, Yuxuan Zhang, Paulo Artaxo, Ulrich Pöschl, and Meinrat O. Andreae

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RC1: 'Revision of the paper by Saturno et al.', Anonymous Referee #1, 31 Jan 2018
- AC1: 'Response to reviewer comment 1', Jorge Saturno, 02 Jun 2018
RC2: 'Interesting paper but clarifications are needed', Anonymous Referee #2, 06 Mar 2018
- AC2: 'Response to reviewer comment 2', Jorge Saturno, 02 Jun 2018

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Biomass burning emits light-absorbing aerosol particles that warm the atmosphere. One of them is the primarily emitted black carbon, which strongly absorbs radiation in the visible and UV spectral regions. Another one is the so-called brown carbon, a fraction of organic aerosol particles that are able to absorb radiation, especially in the UV spectral region. The contribution of both kinds of aerosol particles to light absorption over the Amazon rainforest is studied in this paper.