Interactive comment on “Source attribution of Arctic black carbon constrained by aircraft and surface measurements” by Junwei Xu et al
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Response: Qi et al. (2017a) has been revised to Qi et al. (2017b). We extended the time period from one month (April) in Qi et al. (2017b) to four months (each representing one season) and extended from the surface BC in Qi et al. (2017b) to the column BC that has implications for radiative forcing. We have highlighted these differences in the sentence as “We extend the application of this method to investigate the seasonal and annual responses of Arctic column BC to changes in regional emissions.”. Kopacz et al. (2011) has been removed because this is a relatively old study and it not directly relevant to this study.
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