Transformation of contrails into cirrus during SUCCESS

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1157-1160

  Minnis, Patrick ^a   Young, David F ^a   Garber, Donald P ^a   Nguyen, Louis ^b   Smith Jr , William L ^b   Palikonda, Rabindra ^b  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b ANALYTICAL SERVICES AND MATERIALS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; CLIMATOLOGY; CONDENSATION; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; TROPOSPHERE; NASA; PARTICLE SIZE; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

CIRRUS CLOUDS; CONTRAILS; CLIMATIC IMPACT; CLOUD PARTICLE SIZE; COMMERCIAL AIRCRAFT; OPTICAL DEPTH;

CLOUDS;

CIRRUS; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CLOUD TRANSFORMATION; CONTRAIL;

EID: 0032522170     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL03314     Document Type: Article

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6. Young, D. F., P. Minnis, D. Baumgardner and H. Gerber, Comparisons of effective particle sizes in wave clouds during SUCCESS. Geophys. Res. Ltrs., this issue, 1997.