Sensitivity of contrail coverage and contrail radiative forcing to selected key parameters

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1483-1490

  Fromming, C ^a   Ponater, M ^a   Burkhardt, U ^a   Stenke, A ^b   Pechtl, S ^c   Sausen, R ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b ETH Zurich   (Switzerland)

^c Deutsches Patent und Markenamt   (Germany)

Author keywords

Air traffic; Aviation; Climate impact; Contrail coverage; Optical depth; Radiative forcing

Indexed keywords

AIR TRAFFICS; CLIMATE IMPACTS; CONTRAIL COVERAGE; OPTICAL DEPTH; RADIATIVE FORCINGS;

AVIATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

AIR TRANSPORTATION; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; DIURNAL VARIATION; OPTICAL DEPTH; PARAMETERIZATION; PARTICLE SIZE; RADIATIVE FORCING;

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; GLOBAL CLIMATE; OBSERVATION; OPTICAL DEPTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATIVE FORCING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 79251610569     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2010.11.033     Document Type: Article

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