Light absorbing organic aerosols (brown carbon) over the tropical Indian Ocean: impact of biomass burning emissions

The first field measurements of light absorbing water-soluble organic carbon (WSOC), referred as brown carbon (BrC), have been made in the marine atmospheric boundary layer (MABL) during the continental outflow to the Bay of Bengal (BoB) and the Arabian Sea (ARS). The absorption signal measured at 3...

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Main Authors: Bikkina Srinivas, M M Sarin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2013-01-01
Series:Environmental Research Letters
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/8/4/044042