Sources of carbonaceous aerosol in the Amazon basin

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP), Vol. 11. N° 3. Gilardoni S.; Vignati E.; Marmer E.; et al. - Copernicus GmbH, 2011

The quantification of sources of carbonaceous aerosol is important to understand their atmospheric concentrations and regulating processes and to study possible effects on climate and air quality, in addition to develop mitigation strategies.

In the framework of the European Integrated Project on Aerosol Cloud Climate Interactions (EUCAARI) fine (Dp

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Sources of carbonaceous aerosol in the Amazon basin

  Available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/acp-11-2747-2011

S. Gilardoni ; E. Vignati ; E. Marmer ; F. Cavalli ; C. Belis ; V. Gianelle ; A. Loureiro ; P. Artaxo

in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP) > Vol. 11. N° 3 [03/01/2011] . - p.2747-2764

The quantification of sources of carbonaceous aerosol is important to understand their atmospheric concentrations and regulating processes and to study possible effects on climate and air quality, in addition to develop mitigation strategies.

In the framework of the European Integrated Project on Aerosol Cloud Climate Interactions (EUCAARI) fine (Dp
The source apportionment results were employed to evaluate the ability of global chemistry transport models to simulate carbonaceous aerosol sources in a regional tropical background site. The comparison showed an overestimation of elemental carbon (EC) by the TM5 model during the dry season and OC both during the dry and wet periods. The overestimation was likely due to the overestimation of biomass burning emission inventories and SOA production over tropical areas.

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