Effects of black carbon morphology on brown carbon absorption estimation: from numerical aspects

Luo, Jie; Zhang, Yongming; Zhang, Qixing

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-2113-2021

Articles | Volume 14, issue 4

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-2113-2021

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https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-2113-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 14, issue 4

Methods for assessment of models

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23 Apr 2021

Methods for assessment of models |

| 23 Apr 2021

Effects of black carbon morphology on brown carbon absorption estimation: from numerical aspects

Jie Luo, Yongming Zhang, and Qixing Zhang

Data sets

Dataset for the calculations of MSTM and DDSCAT Jie Luo https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.12839570.v1

Short summary

In this work, we developed a numerical method to investigate the effects of black carbon (BC) morphology on the estimation of brown carbon (BrC) absorption using the absorption Ångström exponent (AAE) method. We found that BC morphologies have significant impacts on the estimated BrC absorptions. Moreover, we have demonstrated under what conditions the AAE methods can provide good or bad estimations and explored the reasons for why the good or bad estimations were caused.