Fossil fuel combustion and biomass burning sources of global black carbon from GEOS-Chem simulation and carbon isotope measurements

Qi, Ling; Wang, Shuxiao

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-11545-2019

Articles | Volume 19, issue 17

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-11545-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-11545-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 19, issue 17

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12 Sep 2019

Research article |

| 12 Sep 2019

Fossil fuel combustion and biomass burning sources of global black carbon from GEOS-Chem simulation and carbon isotope measurements

Ling Qi and Shuxiao Wang

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RC1: 'acp-2019-46', Anonymous Referee #2, 01 May 2019
- AC1: 'Response to RC1', Ling Qi, 09 Jul 2019
RC2: 'comments on acp-2019-46', Anonymous Referee #1, 05 May 2019
- AC2: 'Response to RC2', Ling Qi, 09 Jul 2019

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ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (22 Aug 2019) by Aijun Ding

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Black carbon (BC) contributes two-thirds of the climate impact of carbon dioxide, pushing methane into third place of the human contributors to global warming. This study shows that contributions from biomass burning (producing marginal lensing effect) have a strong spatial variation, from 20 % in Europe to 60 % in Africa. Thus, the inclusion of strong lensing-related absorption enhancement to all BC particles in previous estimates may lead to overestimating their positive radiative forcing.