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Research article
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09 Dec 2021
Research article |
| 09 Dec 2021
| 09 Dec 2021
Method to quantify black carbon aerosol light absorption enhancement with a mixing state index
Gang Zhao
State Key Joint Laboratory of Environmental Simulation and Pollution Control, International Joint Laboratory for Regional Pollution Control,
Ministry of Education, College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering,
Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China
Tianyi Tan
State Key Joint Laboratory of Environmental Simulation and Pollution Control, International Joint Laboratory for Regional Pollution Control,
Ministry of Education, College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering,
Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China
Yishu Zhu
State Key Joint Laboratory of Environmental Simulation and Pollution Control, International Joint Laboratory for Regional Pollution Control,
Ministry of Education, College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering,
Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China
State Key Joint Laboratory of Environmental Simulation and Pollution Control, International Joint Laboratory for Regional Pollution Control,
Ministry of Education, College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering,
Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China
Chunsheng Zhao
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China
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- Microphysical characteristics of black carbon from various emission sources H. Liu et al. 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2023.119825
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- Quantifying the effects of mixing state on aerosol optical properties Y. Yao et al. 10.5194/acp-22-9265-2022
- Overestimation of black carbon light absorption due to mixing state heterogeneity L. Zeng et al. 10.1038/s41612-023-00535-8
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Short summary
In this study, the black carbon (BC) mixing state index (χ) is developed to quantify the dispersion of ambient black carbon aerosol mixing states based on binary systems of BC and other non-black carbon components. We demonstrate that the BC light absorption enhancement increases with χ for the same MR, which indicates that χ can be employed as a factor to constrain the light absorption enhancement of ambient BC.
In this study, the black carbon (BC) mixing state index (χ) is developed to quantify the...
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