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Black Carbon in Snow and Climate Change
March 5, 2013 | Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Science

“Black carbon particles in snow are larger than expected [...] this finding suggests that the warming produced by black carbon in snow could be currently overestimated by as much as 30 percent.” Quoted from the CIRES press release.


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