Estimated contrail frequency and coverage over the contiguous United States from numerical weather prediction analyses and flight track data

Meteorologische Zeitschrift

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 537-548

  Duda, David P ^a   Minnis, Patrick ^a   Palikonda, Rabindra ^b  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b Analytic Services and Materials   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY; WEATHER FORECASTING; WEATHER SATELLITES;

ALGORITHM; CONTRAIL; ESTIMATION METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33646059190     PISSN: 09412948     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0941-2948/2005/0050     Document Type: Article

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