Global distribution of contrail radiative forcing

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 13, 1999, Pages 1853-1856

  Minnis, Patrick ^a   Schumann, Ulrich ^b   Doelling, David R ^a,c   Gierens, Klaus M ^b   Fahey, David W ^d  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^c ANALYTICAL SERVICES AND MATERIALS INC   (United States)

^d NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH ATMOSPHERE; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; AIRCRAFT; CLOUDS; FUEL CONSUMPTION; GAS EMISSIONS; ICE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

AIRCRAFT EMISSIONS; CLOUDY ATMOSPHERES; FLUX COMPUTATION; GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION; INDIRECT EFFECTS; RADIATIVE FORCINGS; RADIATIVE PROPERTIES; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL;

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION;

CONTRAIL INDUCED RADIATIVE FORCING; GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION;

CIRRUS; CONTRAIL; RADIATIVE FORCING;

EID: 0032751719     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900358     Document Type: Article

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