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11 Jan 2024
Research article |  | 11 Jan 2024

Quantifying the effects of the microphysical properties of black carbon on the determination of brown carbon using measurements at multiple wavelengths

Jie Luo, Dan Li, Yuanyuan Wang, Dandan Sun, Weizhen Hou, Jinghe Ren, Hailing Wu, Peng Zhou, and Jibing Qiu

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Remote sensing of brown carbon is very important for climate research, and current optical methods rely mainly on spectral properties for inversion. However, the influence of the microscopic properties of black carbon has rarely been considered by previous studies. This paper shows how the remote sensing of brown carbon is affected by the microphysical properties of black carbon and highlights the adaptability of remote sensing methods.
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