Sentences with phrase «scientists as black carbon»

To get a clear sense of soot — which is known to scientists as black carbon — an international team of 31 atmospheric scientists has worked for the past four years to analyze all the data they could.

Not exact matches

Snow covering the Andes mountains is as clean as the Canadian Arctic, scientists said Friday after hundreds of tests to determine the presence of black carbon deposits or other pollutants.

Scientists are also trying to figure out the role that aerosol particles — including a component of soot known as black carbon — play in influencing the behavior of Himalayan glaciers.

A 2011 study by scientists from NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies found that as much as a quarter of Arctic warming is caused by black carbon.

Reducing emissions of the short - lived climate forcers black carbon and tropospheric ozone — soot and smog — has been identified by scientists as the most effective strategy to slow Arctic warming and melting in the near term, forestalling potentially irreversible tipping points such as the melting, while the world works to reduce emissions of GHGs.

Fast Mitigation: «If we want to reduce the threat of climate change in the near future, there are actions to take now: reduce emissions of short - lived pollutants such as black carbon, cut emissions of methane from natural - gas fields and landfills, and so on,» says Stanford climate scientist Ken Caldeira.

Apart from black carbon, over-concentrations of nitrous oxide and methane also concern the scientists as the larger - than - expected concentration of both these gases can contribute to increasing the heat and thinning the ozone layer.

Despite decades of intense research, scientists must still resort to using huge error bars when assessing how particles such as sulphates, black carbon, sea salt and dust affect temperature and rainfall.

At a recent House hearing, five top scientists stated that black carbon could account for close to 16 % of the planet's gross warming and that it may be second only to carbon dioxide in its potency as a GHG — ahead of methane.The black carbon absorbs incoming sunlight, converting it into infrared radiation and emitting it to the atmosphere — a process we outlined in an earlier post describing the impact of «dirty snow» on global warming.

As illustrated in Part I of this report, scientists, policymakers, and journalists can all fall prey to treating reductions in black carbon as being equal to reductions in carbon dioxidAs illustrated in Part I of this report, scientists, policymakers, and journalists can all fall prey to treating reductions in black carbon as being equal to reductions in carbon dioxidas being equal to reductions in carbon dioxide.

Snow covering the Andes mountains is as clean as the Canadian Arctic, scientists said Friday after hundreds of tests to determine the presence of black carbon deposits or other pollutants.