Bounding the role of black carbon in the climate system: A scientific assessment
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...Despite its high relevance for climate change research (Ramanathan and Carmichael, 2008; Bond et al., 2013), there is no agreed clear and unambiguous terminology available for quantifying carbonaceous matter in atmospheric aerosols....
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...Within the discussion of global climate change, the international community recognized the importance of establishing inventories for sources and sinks of particulate, lightabsorbing carbon (UNEP/WMO, 2011; Bond et al., 2013)....
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...An in-depth discussion of these issues can be found in the papers by Bond et al. (2006, 2013), Andreae and Gelencśer (2006), and in interactive comments to Buseck et al. (2012); see Schwartz and Lewis (2012), Prather (2012), Gysel (2012) and published reviews: – “Soot carbon” or “Soot” (Csoot):…...
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...…emission inventories and modeling studies (e.g., Bond et al., 2007; Junker and Liousse, 2008; Vignati et al., 2010; Granier et al., 2011; Lee et al., 2012), as well as scientific assessments (Solomon et al., 2007; Bond et al., 2013), require data sets that are independent of the measurement method....
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...In the end, all definitions used in the scientific literature refer to a specific property of the respective carbonaceous fraction or to the method that is used for the measurement (Heintzenberg and Winkler, 1991; Pöschl, 2003; Bond et al., 2013)....
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...[22] Comprehensive reviews of absorption measurements have been provided by Horvath [1993] and by Moosmüller et al....
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...Regular retrievals for cloud-free conditions with identical instrumentation at many AERONET locations [Holben et al., 1998] provide extensive coverage over continents and islands....
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