Houghton, Michigan – September 30, 2015 – Black carbon is basically soot. And like a parking lot on a hot July day, it absorbs sunlight and heats up. New research sheds light on the complex way black carbon and solar radiation interact to increase warming in the atmosphere.
Michigan Tech researchers collaborated with a team from the Los Alamos National Laboratory and several other universities on the Clean Air for London (ClearfLo) project. Their research on black carbon’s impacts came out today in Nature Communications.
Michigan Tech’s team focused on the microscopy work, which is also important for other research done in the lab and in the field, from the cloud chamber on campus to atmospheric monitoring on Pico Mountain in the Azores. Understanding the impacts of atmospheric particles will help refine climate change models, weather predictions and provide better information for making policies on black carbon and other short-lived pollutants.
Read the full story here: Michigan Tech News and Los Alamos National Laboratory.
You can contact Michigan Tech’s lead researcher Claudio Mazzoleni at cmazzoleni@mtu.edu, 906-487-2102. He is on sabbatical in Italy currently, so email is best for initial contact, but he is willing to Skype or arrange for an international phone call. You can also reach Noopur Sharma at noopurs@mtu.edu, 906-370-6702.
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