Articles | Volume 22, issue 14
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-9199-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-9199-2022
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18 Jul 2022
Research article |  | 18 Jul 2022

Light absorption by brown carbon over the South-East Atlantic Ocean

Lu Zhang, Michal Segal-Rozenhaimer, Haochi Che, Caroline Dang, Arthur J. Sedlacek III, Ernie R. Lewis, Amie Dobracki, Jenny P. S. Wong, Paola Formenti, Steven G. Howell, and Athanasios Nenes

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ORACLES data archive ORACLES Science Team https://doi.org/10.5067/Suborbital/ORACLES/P3/2018_V2

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Widespread biomass burning (BB) events occur annually in Africa and contribute ~ 1 / 3 of global BB emissions, which contain a large family of light-absorbing organics, known as brown carbon (BrC), whose absorption of incident radiation is difficult to estimate, leading to large uncertainties in the global radiative forcing estimation. This study quantifies the BrC absorption of aged BB particles and highlights the potential presence of absorbing iron oxides in this climatically important region.
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