Articles | Volume 19, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-181-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-181-2019
Research article
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07 Jan 2019
Research article |  | 07 Jan 2019

Modelling black carbon absorption of solar radiation: combining external and internal mixing assumptions

Gabriele Curci, Ummugulsum Alyuz, Rocio Barò, Roberto Bianconi, Johannes Bieser, Jesper H. Christensen, Augustin Colette, Aidan Farrow, Xavier Francis, Pedro Jiménez-Guerrero, Ulas Im, Peng Liu, Astrid Manders, Laura Palacios-Peña, Marje Prank, Luca Pozzoli, Ranjeet Sokhi, Efisio Solazzo, Paolo Tuccella, Alper Unal, Marta G. Vivanco, Christian Hogrefe, and Stefano Galmarini

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AR by Gabriele Curci on behalf of the Authors (30 Oct 2018)
ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (09 Nov 2018) by Xavier Querol
RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (28 Nov 2018)
RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (02 Dec 2018)
ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (11 Dec 2018) by Xavier Querol
AR by Gabriele Curci on behalf of the Authors (14 Dec 2018)  Author's response   Manuscript 
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Short summary
Atmospheric carbonaceous aerosols are able to absorb solar radiation and they continue to contribute some of the largest uncertainties in projected climate change. One important detail is how the chemical species are arranged inside each particle, i.e. the knowledge of their mixing state. We use an ensemble of regional model simulations to test different mixing state assumptions and found that a combination of internal and external mixing may better reproduce sunphotometer observations.
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