An upgraded estimate of the radiative forcing of cryoplane contrails

Meteorologische Zeitschrift

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 573-582

  Marquart, Susanne ^a,b   Ponater, Michael ^a   Ström, Linda ^a,c   Gierens, Klaus ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c VOLVO AERO CORPORATION   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; VAPORS;

CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTRAIL; OPTICAL PROPERTY; RADIATIVE FORCING;

EID: 24144471608     PISSN: 09412948     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0941-2948/2005/0057     Document Type: Article

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