Color of brown carbon: A model for ultraviolet and visible light absorption by organic carbon aerosol

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Strong spectral variation of biomass smoke light absorption and single scattering albedo observed with a novel dual-wavelength photoacoustic instrument (2008, background): “6 eV; the Eg for BC is thought to be equal to zero [Sun et al., 2007].”
Size-resolved measurements of brown carbon in water and methanol extracts and estimates of their contribution to ambient fine-particle light absorption (2013, background): “Previous studies generally assume a small particle limit, where the particle size is not comparable to wavelength, when estimating particle light absorption from bulk solutions, in which case the factor is 0.69 to 0.75 (Nakayama et al., 2013; Sun et al., 2007).”
Aerosol light absorption and its measurement: A review (2009, background): “The inclusion of carbonaceous aerosols into the radiative transfer component of climate models presents several challenges: (1) aerosol light absorption can add a heating term to the cooling term of nonabsorbing aerosols, (2) carbonaceous aerosols can be non-spherical and inhomogeneous with combusti”
Absorption Ångström coefficient, brown carbon, and aerosols: basic concepts, bulk matter, and spherical particles (2010, methodology): “For small spherical particles, that is for particles with a size parameterx 1, the absorption cross-section σ abs can be written as (Bohren and Huffman, 1998; Sun et al., 2007)”