title: Reply to Boucher et al.: Rate and timescale of black carbon aging regulate direct radiative forcing.
authors.affiliation: Department 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.
authors.forename: Renyi
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: Department 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;
authors.forename: Jianfei
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Peng
authors.affiliation: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125.
authors.forename: Yuan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: 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.
authors.forename: Min
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hu
mesh_terms: D000375:Aging; D000397:Air Pollution / Q000032:analysis*; D002244:Carbon / Q000032:analysis; D053260:Soot
chemical_list: D053260:Soot; D002244:Carbon