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Brown Carbon Spheres in East Asian Outflow and Their Optical Properties
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Atmospheric aerosols play a substantial role in climate change through radiative forcing. Combustion-produced carbonaceous particles are the main light-absorbing aerosols; thus, quantifying their optical properties is essential for determining the magnitude of direct forcing. By using the electron energy-loss spectrum in the transmission electron microscope, we quantified the optical properties of individual, submicrometer amorphous carbon spheres that are ubiquitous in East Asian–Pacific outflow. The data indicate that these common spheres are brown, not black, with a mean refractive index of 1.67 – 0.27 i (where i = \batchmode \documentclass[fleqn,10pt,legalpaper]{article} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amsmath} \pagestyle{empty} \begin{document} \(\sqrt{1}\) \end{document} ) at a wavelength of 550 nanometers. The results suggest that brown carbon aerosols should be explicitly included in radiative forcing models.
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- Authors
- Alexander, D. T. L., Crozier, P. A., & Anderson, J. R.
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 2008-08-08
- Volume
- 321
- Issue
- 5890
- Pages
- 833-836
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- OpenAlex
- W1967934995
- Cited by
- 524
- References
- 1
- FWCI
- 9.51
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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