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JOURNAL OF AEROSOL SCIENCE
Volume 40, Issue 7, Pages 613-620Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaerosci.2009.04.002
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Aerosol light absorption; Organic/brown carbon; Agricultural waste burning; Rice straw; Cairo megacity
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- French Ministry of Foreign Affairs [446538E]
- Institut National des Sciences de I'Univers (INSU)
- Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique (CEA)
- Agence gouvernementale De l'Environnement et de la Maitrise de l'Energie (ADEME)
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Absorption properties (absorption Angstrom exponent and mass absorption efficiency) of agricultural waste burning organic aerosols (AWB-OA) and their impact on total absorption were investigated in Cairo (Egypt) during the post-harvest rice straw burning autumn season. At 370 nm, AWB-OA were found to account for more than 25% of total absorption on average for the period of study (and for similar to 50% during intense biomass burning events), pointing out the major role potentially played by such particles on light absorption at short wavelengths. The absorption exponent obtained for AWB-OA (similar to 3.5) is consistent with values previously reported for biomass burning brown carbon. In addition, AWB-OA were found to exhibit high mass absorption efficiencies at the near ultraviolet/mid-visible regions (e.g. 3.2 +/- 1.6 m(2) g(-1) at 370 nm and 0.8 +/- 0.4 m(2) g(-1) at 520 nm). Such findings clearly illustrate the need to take light absorption by organic aerosols into account for a better estimate of the radiative impact of biomass burning aerosols. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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