Sentences with phrase «produce black carbon aerosols»
Image at right: Natural and anthropogenic biomass burning, such as forest fires and the burning of fields in the tropics, produce black carbon aerosols, i.e., soot.
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Black carbon aerosol deposited on snow has reduced the surface albedo, producing an associated RF of +0.1 [± 0.1] W m — 2, with a low level of scientific understanding.
Some aerosols, such as black carbon, absorb sunlight and produce a warming effect that might also inhibit rainfall.
They produce aerosols yes, but a lot of them are black carbon (a warming influence), and they also produce NOx, CO and CH4 (ozone precursors) as well as CO2 of course.
In Europe, for instance, the use of coal for power generation produces very little sulphate aerosol or black carbon because of existing air - quality controls.
The aerosol plume produced by biomass burning at the end of the dry season contains black carbon that absorbs radiation.