Importance of representing optical depth variability for estimates of global line-shaped contrail radiative forcing

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 45, 2010, Pages 19181-19184

  Kärcher, Bernd ^a   Burkhardt, Ulrike ^a   Ponater, Michael ^a   Frömming, Christine ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aviation; Global change

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLOUD; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; GLOBAL CHANGE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; OPTICAL DEPTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RADIATIVE FORCING; SIMULATION; TELECOMMUNICATION; UNCERTAINTY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78650620544     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1005555107     Document Type: Article

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