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2022 ◽  
Vol 806 ◽  
pp. 150570
Author(s):  
Yuan Gao ◽  
Qiyuan Wang ◽  
Li Li ◽  
Wenting Dai ◽  
Jinjiang Yu ◽  
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2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Junjun Deng ◽  
Hao Ma ◽  
Xinfeng Wang ◽  
Shujun Zhong ◽  
Zhimin Zhang ◽  
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Abstract. Brown carbon (BrC) aerosols exert vital impacts on climate change and atmospheric photochemistry due to their light absorption in the wavelength range from near-ultraviolet (UV) to visible light. However, the optical properties and formation mechanisms of ambient BrC remain poorly understood, limiting the estimation of their radiative forcing. In the present study, fine aerosols (PM2.5) were collected during 2016–2017 on a day/night basis over urban Tianjin, a megacity in North China, to obtain seasonal and diurnal patterns of atmospheric water-soluble BrC. There were obvious seasonal but no evident diurnal variations in light absorption properties of BrC. In winter, BrC showed much stronger light absorbing ability since mass absorption efficiency at 365 nm (MAE365) (1.54 ± 0.33 m2 g−1), which was 1.8 times larger than that (0.84 ± 0.22 m2 g−1) in summer. Direct radiative effects by BrC absorption relative to black carbon in the UV range were 54.3 ± 16.9 % and 44.6 ± 13.9 %, respectively. In addition, five fluorescent components in BrC, including three humic-like fluorophores and two protein-like fluorophores were identified with excitation-emission matrix fluorescence spectrometry and parallel factor (PARAFAC) analysis. The lowly-oxygenated components contributed more to winter and nighttime samples, while more-oxygenated components increased in summer and daytime samples. The higher humification index (HIX) together with lower biological index (BIX) and fluorescence index (FI) suggest that the chemical compositions of BrC were associated with a high aromaticity degree in summer and daytime due to photobleaching. Fluorescent properties indicate that wintertime BrC were predominantly affected by primary emissions and fresh secondary organic aerosol (SOA), while summer ones were more influenced by aging processes. Results of source apportionments using organic molecular compositions of the same set of aerosols reveal that fossil fuel combustion and aging processes, primary bioaerosol emission, biomass burning, and biogenic and anthropogenic SOA formation were the main sources of BrC. Biomass burning contributed much larger to BrC in winter and at nighttime, while biogenic SOA contributed more in summer and at daytime. Especially, our study highlights that primary bioaerosol emission is an important source of BrC in urban Tianjin in summer.


Author(s):  
Natalie G. Jimenez ◽  
Kyle D. Sharp ◽  
Tobin Gramyk ◽  
Duncan Z. Ugland ◽  
Matthew-Khoa Tran ◽  
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Author(s):  
Khairallah Atwi ◽  
Charles Perrie ◽  
Zezhen Cheng ◽  
Omar El Hajj ◽  
Rawad Saleh

The light-absorption properties of brown carbon (BrC) are often estimated using offline, solvent-extraction methods. However, recent studies have found evidence of insoluble species of BrC which are unaccounted for in...


Author(s):  
Soroush E Neyestani ◽  
Rawad Saleh

The month of August 2015 featured extensive wildfires in the Northwestern U.S. and no significant fires in Alaska and Canada. With the majority of carbonaceous aerosols (CA), including black carbon...


Author(s):  
Ru-Jin Huang ◽  
Lu Yang ◽  
Jincan Shen ◽  
Wei Yuan ◽  
Yuquan Gong ◽  
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2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fernando Morais ◽  
Paulo Artaxo ◽  
Henrique Barbosa ◽  
Marco Aurélio Franco ◽  
Bruna Holanda ◽  
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2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fernando Morais ◽  
Paulo Artaxo ◽  
Henrique Barbosa ◽  
Marco Aurélio Franco ◽  
Bruna Holanda ◽  
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