Evaluation of the use of radiosonde humidity data to predict the occurrence of persistent contrails

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 133, Issue 627, 2007, Pages 1413-1423

  Radel G ^a   Shine, K P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Contrails; Ice supersaturation; Radiosondes

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; ICE; STATISTICAL METHODS; TROPOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC LAYERS; CONTRAILS; ICE SUPERSATURATION;

RADIOSONDES;

CONTRAIL; HUMIDITY; RADIOSONDE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUPERSATURATION;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; READING [ENGLAND]; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 35548997350     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.128     Document Type: Article

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