New study highlights importance of brown carbon in global climate change

Researchers led by Prof. Zhang Weijun from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (HFIPS) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have found that a decrease of about 35% of single scattering albedo (SSA) at 365–405 nm would cause a 46% decrease in direct radiative forcing (DRF) efficiency at ground albedo. The research was published in Science of the Total Environment.