Radiative forcing by contrails

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1080-1094

  Meerkotter R ^a   Schumann, U ^a   Doelling, D R ^b   Minnis, P ^b   Nakajima, T ^c   Tsushima, Y ^c  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atmospheric composition and structure (aerosols and particles); Meteorology and atmospheric dynamics (climatology, radiative processes)

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033446030     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00585-999-1080-7     Document Type: Article

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