This monograph provides a unique and comprehensive coverage of the nature and atmospheric role
of carbonaceous aerosol particles these big unknowns of the global atmosphere. Even the
concept of carbonaceous aerosol has just recently grown out of atmospheric pollution studies
without ever being anchored to solidified nomenclature and terminology. It is beyond any doubt
that no major breakthrough can be expected in resolving climate issues without a better
understanding of the role carbonaceous particles play in the global atmosphere. This monograph
may serve as an indispensable reference for all those interested in virtually any aspects of
global atmospheric sciences especially for those who are stakeholders in inadvertent climate
modification. Thus atmospheric chemists physicists meteorologists and modellers may well
find this monograph a thought-inspiring and sometimes provocative overview of all global
phenomena affected by or related to carbonaceous aerosol. An anticipated advantage of this
monograph is that it brings together these diverse atmospheric phenomena under the umbrella of
carbonaceous aerosol in an interdisciplinary way which is a prerequisite of resolving global
scientific issues.
