Reply to Boucher et al.: Rate and timescale of black carbon aging regulate direct radiative forcing

Renyi Zhang¹, Jianfei Peng², Yuan Wang³+1

• ¹Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843; Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843; State Key Joint Laboratory of Environmental Simulation and Pollution Control, College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China; renyi-zhang@tamu.edu minhu@pku.edu.cn.+3