Explaining variance in black carbon's aging timescale

Fierce, L.; Riemer, N.; Bond, T. C.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-3173-2015

Articles | Volume 15, issue 6

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-3173-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-3173-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 15, issue 6

Research article

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20 Mar 2015

Research article |

| 20 Mar 2015

Explaining variance in black carbon's aging timescale

L. Fierce, N. Riemer, and T. C. Bond

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Final revised paper (published on 20 Mar 2015)
Preprint (discussion started on 16 Jul 2014)

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC C6190: 'Review', Anonymous Referee #1, 25 Aug 2014
- AC C9180: 'Response to Reviewer #1', Laura Fierce, 15 Nov 2014
RC C7288: 'Review', Anonymous Referee #2, 19 Sep 2014
- AC C9191: 'Response to Reviewer #2', Laura Fierce, 15 Nov 2014

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Laura Fierce on behalf of the Authors (15 Nov 2014) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (09 Dec 2014) by Hang Su

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (16 Dec 2014)

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (09 Jan 2015)

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (16 Jan 2015) by Hang Su

AR by Laura Fierce on behalf of the Authors (25 Jan 2015) Author's response Manuscript

Short summary

The timescale for particles containing black carbon to age from hydrophobic to hygroscopic strongly influences black carbon's atmospheric lifetime and climate impact. This paper identifies the minimal set of independent variables needed to explain variance in this aging timescale. This work distills the complex interactions captured by a particle-resolved aerosol model to a few input variables and is a first step toward developing physically based parameterizations of aerosol aging.