Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• McConnell, Joseph R
• Edwards, Ross
• Kok, Gregory L
• Flanner, Mark G
• Zender, Charles S
• Saltzman, Eric S
• Banta, J. Ryan
• Pasteris, Daniel R
• Carter, Megan M
• Kahl, Jonathan D.W

Titel

20th-Century Industrial Black Carbon Emissions Altered Arctic Climate Forcing

Ist Teil von

• Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science), 2007-09, Vol.317 (5843), p.1381-1384

Ort / Verlag

Washington, DC: American Association for the Advancement of Science

Erscheinungsjahr

2007

Quelle

American Association for the Advancement of Science

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Black carbon (BC) from biomass and fossil fuel combustion alters chemical and physical properties of the atmosphere and snow albedo, yet little is known about its emission or deposition histories. Measurements of BC, vanillic acid, and non-sea-salt sulfur in ice cores indicate that sources and concentrations of BC in Greenland precipitation varied greatly since 1788 as a result of boreal forest fires and industrial activities. Beginning about 1850, industrial emissions resulted in a sevenfold increase in ice-core BC concentrations, with most change occurring in winter. BC concentrations after about 1951 were lower but increasing. At its maximum from 1906 to 1910, estimated surface climate forcing in early summer from BC in Arctic snow was about 3 watts per square meter, which is eight times the typical preindustrial forcing value.