A parametric radiative forcing model for contrail cirrus

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 51, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1391-1406

  Schumann, Ulrich ^a   Mayer, B ^a   Graf, K ^a   Mannstein, H ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cirrus clouds; Contrails chemtrails; Radiative forcing

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; CLOUDS; LIFE CYCLE; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; RADIATIVE TRANSFER;

CIRRUS CLOUDS; CONTRAILS/CHEMTRAILS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; METEOROLOGICAL CONDITION; MODELING AND CALCULATIONS; OUTGOING LONGWAVE RADIATION; RADIATIVE FORCINGS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL;

ANALYTICAL MODELS;

CIRRUS; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; CONTRAIL; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; SOLAR RADIATION; TOP OF ATMOSPHERE;

EID: 84864854947     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: 15588432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-11-0242.1     Document Type: Article

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