Bounding the role of black carbon in the climate system: A scientific assessment
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · University of Washington · +32 more institutions
Abstract
Abstract Black carbon aerosol plays a unique and important role in Earth's climate system. Black carbon is a type of carbonaceous material with a unique combination of physical properties. This assessment provides an evaluation of black‐carbon climate forcing that is comprehensive in its inclusion of all known and relevant processes and that is quantitative in providing best estimates and uncertainties of the main forcing terms: direct solar absorption; influence on liquid, mixed phase, and ice clouds; and deposition on snow and ice. These effects are calculated with climate models, but when possible, they are evaluated with both microphysical measurements and field observations. Predominant sources are…
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 296.67
- Percentile
- 100%
- References
- 835
Authors
31- TCTami C. BondCorresponding
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- SJSarah J. Doherty
University of Washington
- DWD. W. Fahey
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory
- PFPiers Forster
University of Leeds
- TKTerje K. Berntsen
University of Oslo, CICERO Center for International Climate Research
Topics & keywords
- Radiative forcing
- Carbon black
- Environmental science
- Atmospheric sciences
- Carbon fibers
- Forcing (mathematics)
- Soot
- Greenhouse gas
- Climate action