Aircraft type influence on contrail properties

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 13, Issue 23, 2013, Pages 11965-11984

  Jessberger P ^a,b   Voigt, C ^a,b   Schumann, U ^a   Solch I ^a   Schlager, H ^a   Kaufmann, S ^a,b   Petzold, A ^a,d   Schauble D ^a,e   Gayet, J F ^c  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CLERMONT AUVERGNE   (France)

^d FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^e INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED SUSTAINABILITY STUDIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE SURVEY; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CONTRAIL; DENSITY; ICE; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; OPTICAL DEPTH; PARAMETERIZATION; PARTICLE SIZE; RELATIVE HUMIDITY;

FALCONIDAE;

EID: 84879983933     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-13-11965-2013     Document Type: Article

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