Contrail cirrus supporting areas in model and observations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 16, 2008, Pages

  Burkhardt, Ulrike ^a   Kärcher, Bernd ^a   Ponater, Michael ^a   Gierens, Klaus ^a   Gettelman, Andrew ^b  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; SUPERSATURATION;

CLIMATE MODELS; CLOUD COVERS; FLIGHT LEVELS; FRACTIONAL AREAS; POTENTIAL CONTRAILS; PRESSURE FIELDS; SATELLITE MEASUREMENTS;

CLOUDS;

AIRBORNE SURVEY; CIRRUS; CLIMATE MODELING; CLOUD COVER; ESTIMATION METHOD; PARAMETERIZATION; PRESSURE FIELD;

EID: 56449125015     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL034056     Document Type: Article

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