Nature Communications (Jan 2023)

Revised historical Northern Hemisphere black carbon emissions based on inverse modeling of ice core records

  • Sabine Eckhardt,
  • Ignacio Pisso,
  • Nikolaos Evangeliou,
  • Christine Groot Zwaaftink,
  • Andreas Plach,
  • Joseph R. McConnell,
  • Michael Sigl,
  • Meri Ruppel,
  • Christian Zdanowicz,
  • Saehee Lim,
  • Nathan Chellman,
  • Thomas Opel,
  • Hanno Meyer,
  • Jørgen Peder Steffensen,
  • Margit Schwikowski,
  • Andreas Stohl

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35660-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Black Carbon is an important climate forcer with poorly constraint historic emission fluxes and therefore large emission uncertainty. Here, ice-core data are combined with modelling to reconstruct historical emissions of Black carbon and finding gaps with the existing inventories, which implies potential climate sensitivity biases