The characteristics of atmospheric brown carbon in Xi'an, inland China: sources, size distributions and optical properties

Wu, Can; Wang, Gehui; Li, Jin; Li, Jianjun; Cao, Cong; Ge, Shuangshuang; Xie, Yuning; Chen, Jianmin; Li, Xingru; Xue, Guoyan; Wang, Xinpei; Zhao, Zhuyu; Cao, Fang

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-2017-2020

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21 Feb 2020

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The characteristics of atmospheric brown carbon in Xi'an, inland China: sources, size distributions and optical properties

Can Wu, Gehui Wang, Jin Li, Jianjun Li, Cong Cao, Shuangshuang Ge, Yuning Xie, Jianmin Chen, Xingru Li, Guoyan Xue, Xinpei Wang, Zhuyu Zhao, and Fang Cao

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RC1: 'Brown Carbon', Anonymous Referee #2, 17 Sep 2019
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RC2: 'Review comments on ACP-2019-640', Anonymous Referee #3, 30 Nov 2019
- AC2: 'Reply to reviewers' comments', Can Wu, 25 Dec 2019

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Brown carbon (BrC), as an important component of aerosol, has attracted wide attention in recent years, yet very limited information on size differences is available. This paper reveals that BrC presented a bimodal pattern and was mainly derived from biomass burning in an interior city of China. Our results are very helpful for readers to comprehensively understand the features of brown carbon in China.