Black Carbon Nanoparticles in Paleo-Records: A Combustion Proxy

• Main Author: Bisiaux, Marion M. A.
• Other Authors: Edwards, P. Ross, McConnell, Joseph R., Heyvaert, Alan C., Penner, Joyce E., Arnott, W. Patrick
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Antarctica; Black carbon; Fire; Ice core; Lake Tahoe; Pollution; Antarctic; Dronning Maud Land; East Antarctic Ice Sheet; Law Dome; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; Antarc*; ice core; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11714/3955

Emitted to the atmosphere through fire and fossil fuel combustion, refractory black carbon nanoparticles (rBC) impact the global climate, atmospheric chemistry, human health, and the carbon cycle. In the Southern Hemisphere (SH), rBC is transported in the atmosphere from low latitudes to Antarctica...