Sustained dominance of South Asia’s black carbon pollution impacting the Tibetan plateau in the 21st century

Abstract Black carbon (BC) not only warms the atmosphere but also accelerates glacier melt over the Tibetan Plateau (TP), threatening the Asia Water Tower. In order to understand future BC change in the TP, we analyzed the distribution of BC over the TP and its surroundings from 1985 to 2014, as wel...

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Main Authors: Hao Deng, Zhenming Ji, Shichang Kang, Qianggong Zhang, Zhiyuan Cong, Wenjie Dong
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2024-12-01
Series:npj Climate and Atmospheric Science
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-024-00856-2