Wildfires Enhance Snow Melt
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•Scientists uncover hidden source of snow melt: Dark brown carbon
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Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have quantified the effect of dark brown carbon on snow melt.
Dark brown carbon (d-BrC) from wildfires plays a much larger role as a snow-warming agent than previously recorded.
It's 1.6 times as potent a warmer compared to what researchers previously thought was the main culprit, black carbon.
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