Black carbon footprint of human presence in Antarctica

• Published in: Nature Communications
• Main Authors: Cordero, Raúl R., Sepúlveda, Edgardo, Feron, Sarah, Damiani, Alessandro, Fernandoy, Francisco, Neshyba, Steven, Rowe, Penny M., Asencio, Valentina, Carrasco, Jorge, Alfonso, Juan A., Llanillo, Pedro, Wachter, Paul, Seckmeyer, Gunther, Stepanova, Marina, Carrera, Juan M., Jorquera, Jose, Wang, Chenghao, Malhotra, Avni, Dana, Jacob, Khan, Alia L., Casassa, Gino
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Publishing Group UK 2022
• Subjects: Article; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Ellsworth Mountains; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8863810/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35194040; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28560-w

Black carbon (BC) from fossil fuel and biomass combustion darkens the snow and makes it melt sooner. The BC footprint of research activities and tourism in Antarctica has likely increased as human presence in the continent has surged in recent decades. Here, we report on measurements of the BC conce...