{"id":18365,"date":"2020-11-07T15:19:53","date_gmt":"2020-11-07T09:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=18365"},"modified":"2021-05-17T14:35:23","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T09:05:23","slug":"brown-carbon-tarballs-found-in-himalayan-atmosphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/brown-carbon-tarballs-found-in-himalayan-atmosphere\/","title":{"rendered":"Brown carbon \u2018tarballs\u2019 found in Himalayan atmosphere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News:<\/strong> Study has found that nearly 28% of particles collected from the air samples from a research station in the Himalaya-Tibetan Plateau were tarballs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Tarballs<\/strong>: They are small light-absorbing, carbonaceous particles formed from Brown Carbon due to burning of biomass or fossil fuels that deposit on snow and ice.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Where did Tarballs come from? <\/strong>The study has indicated that the tarballs were emitted from biomass burning in the Indo-Gangetic Plain<strong>.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Concerns: <\/strong>The percentage of the tarballs increased on days of higher levels of pollution and could contribute to hastening of glacial melt and global warming.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Additional Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Brown Carbon: <\/strong>It is the brown smoke released by the combustion of organic matter.It coexists with black carbon when released in the atmosphere.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Black carbon:<\/strong> It is formed through the incomplete combustion of fossil fuels, biofuel and biomass.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"ZNEKu0hT1w\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/arunachal-harbours-a-vanadium-source\/\">Arunachal harbours a Vanadium source<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Arunachal harbours a Vanadium source&#8221; &#8212; Free UPSC IAS Preparation For Aspirants\" src=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/arunachal-harbours-a-vanadium-source\/embed\/#?secret=SB5S4vcbVE#?secret=ZNEKu0hT1w\" data-secret=\"ZNEKu0hT1w\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Study has found that nearly 28% of particles collected from the air samples from a research station in the Himalaya-Tibetan Plateau were tarballs. &nbsp; Facts: Tarballs: They are small light-absorbing, carbonaceous particles formed from Brown Carbon due to burning of biomass or fossil fuels that deposit on snow and ice. Where did Tarballs come&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/brown-carbon-tarballs-found-in-himalayan-atmosphere\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Brown carbon \u2018tarballs\u2019 found in Himalayan atmosphere<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1351,1310,4182],"tags":[5178,5179],"class_list":["post-18365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-news","category-daily-news-updates","category-environment","tag-brown-carbon","tag-tarballs","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704729501},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}