Hazy clouds
Making black carbon visible in climate science
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2391231 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Vasundhara Bhojvaid (0000-0003-0057-0305, Shiv Nadar University, Greater Noida, India, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 162-177 |
| Publication date | 2021-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Material Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1359-1835 • E-ISSN: 1460-3586 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1359183521994864 |
| OpenAlex | W3131830502 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 18 |
In 1995, a multimillion-dollar experiment - the Indian Ocean Experiment - discovered a dark mass of polluting air hovering above the Indian subcontinent. This mass of air was termed a cloud and found to be composed of a high amount of black carbon that was judged to be the second biggest threat to climate change after carbon-dioxide. In this article, an attempt is made to trace the life of black carbon by documenting its changing forms since the experiment. It emerges that the changing forms allow for the movement of air - smoke from traditional cookstoves and vehicular diesel emissions in India lead to the formation of the cloud - and reveal how an ethnography of air can be undertaken
Carbon black · Geography · Meteorology · Smoke · Trace gas · Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics · Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols · Chemistry · Environmental Science · Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy
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| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,6 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2024 (4) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |