Articles | Volume 21, issue 12
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-9417-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-9417-2021
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21 Jun 2021
Research article |  | 21 Jun 2021

Rapid transformation of ambient absorbing aerosols from West African biomass burning

Huihui Wu, Jonathan W. Taylor, Justin M. Langridge, Chenjie Yu, James D. Allan, Kate Szpek, Michael I. Cotterell, Paul I. Williams, Michael Flynn, Patrick Barker, Cathryn Fox, Grant Allen, James Lee, and Hugh Coe

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MOYA: ground station and in-situ airborne observations by the FAAM BAE-146 aircraft Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements http://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/d309a5ab60b04b6c82eca6d006350ae6

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Seasonal biomass burning over West Africa is a globally significant source of carbonaceous particles in the atmosphere, which have important climate impacts but are poorly constrained. We conducted in situ airborne measurements to investigate the evolution of smoke aerosol properties in this region. We observed absorption enhancement for both black carbon and brown carbon after emission, which provides new field results and constraints on aerosol parameterizations for future climate models.
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