Articles | Volume 21, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-2329-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-2329-2021
Research article
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17 Feb 2021
Research article |  | 17 Feb 2021

Brown carbon's emission factors and optical characteristics in household biomass burning: developing a novel algorithm for estimating the contribution of brown carbon

Jianzhong Sun, Yuzhe Zhang, Guorui Zhi, Regina Hitzenberger, Wenjing Jin, Yingjun Chen, Lei Wang, Chongguo Tian, Zhengying Li, Rong Chen, Wen Xiao, Yuan Cheng, Wei Yang, Liying Yao, Yang Cao, Duo Huang, Yueyuan Qiu, Jiali Xu, Xiaofei Xia, Xin Yang, Xi Zhang, Zheng Zong, Yuchun Song, and Changdong Wu

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AR by Jianzhong Sun on behalf of the Authors (12 Nov 2020)  Author's response    Manuscript
ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (17 Nov 2020) by Sergey A. Nizkorodov
RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (28 Nov 2020)
RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (03 Dec 2020)
ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (05 Dec 2020) by Sergey A. Nizkorodov
AR by Jianzhong Sun on behalf of the Authors (20 Dec 2020)  Author's response    Author's tracked changes    Manuscript
ED: Publish as is (22 Dec 2020) by Sergey A. Nizkorodov
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Brown carbon (BrC) emission factors from household biomass fuels were measured with an integrating sphere optics approach supported by iterative calculations. A novel algorithm to directly estimate the absorption contribution of BrC relative to that of BrC + black carbon (FBrC) was proposed based purely on the absorption exponent (AAE) (FBrC = 0.5519 lnAAE + 0.0067). The FBrC for household biomass fuels was as high as 50.8 % across the strongest solar spectral range of 350−850 nm.
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