Urban pollution greatly enhances formation of natural aerosols over the Amazon rainforest

Shrivastava, Manish; O. Andreae, Meinrat; Artaxo, Paulo; M. J. Barbosa, Henrique; K. Berg, Larry; Brito, Joël; Ching, Joseph; C. Easter, R.; Fan, Jiwen; D. Fast, Jerome; Feng, Zhe; D. Fuentes, José; Glasius, Marianne; H. Goldstein, Allen; Gomes Alves, Eliane; Barros Gomes, Helber; Gu, Dasa; Guenther, Alex; H. Jathar, Shantanu; Kim, Saewung; Liu, Ying; Lou, Sijia; T. Martin, Scot; Faye McNeill, V.; Sady De Medeiros, Adan; S. de Sá, Suzane; E. Shilling, John; Springston, Stephen; Augusto Ferreira De Souza, Rodrigo; A. Thornton, Joel; Isaacman‐VanWertz, Gabriel; D. Yee, Lindsay; Yuri Ynoue, Rita; A. Zaveri, R.; Zelenyuk, Alla; Zhao, Chun

doi:10.1038/s41467-019-08909-4

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Urban pollution greatly enhances formation of natural aerosols over the Amazon rainforest

Published in Nature Communications • Mar 5, 2019

Authors:

Manish Shrivastava

Meinrat O. Andreae

Paulo Artaxo

Abstract

One of the least understood aspects in atmospheric chemistry is how urban emissions influence the formation of natural organic aerosols, which affect Earth's energy budget. The Amazon rainforest, during its wet season, is one of the few remaining places on Earth where atmospheric chemistry transitio...

Subject

Amazon rainforest

Rainforest

Natural (archaeology)

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