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Black carbon and brown clouds

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In aerosol hot spots around the globe, solar radiation is dimmed down on its way to the Earth's surface. The resulting surface cooling turns out to be almost in balance with heating of the atmosphere due to black carbon.

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Figure 1: Megacity aerosols.

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Seinfeld, J. Black carbon and brown clouds. Nature Geosci 1, 15–16 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo.2007.62

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