Selected topics on the interaction between cirrus clouds and embedded contrails

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 12, Issue 24, 2012, Pages 11943-11949

  Gierens, K ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL METHOD; CIRRUS; CONTRAIL; ICE CRYSTAL; TROPOSPHERE; VORTEX; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 84871334440     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-12-11943-2012     Document Type: Article

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