Do aircraft black carbon emissions affect cirrus clouds on the global scale?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Hendricks, Johannes ^a   Karcher B ^a   Lohmann, U ^b   Ponater, M ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; AVIATION; CARBON BLACK; CLOUDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUCLEATION; PARTICULATE EMISSIONS;

CARBON BLACK EMISSIONS; CIRRUS CLOUDS; ICE CLOUD MICROPHYSICS;

METEOROLOGY;

AIRCRAFT EMISSION; BLACK CARBON; CIRRUS; CLOUD CONDENSATION NUCLEUS;

EID: 25844521103     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL022740     Document Type: Article

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