Persistent contrails and contrail cirrus. Part II: Full lifetime behavior

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 71, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 4420-4438

  Lewellen, D C ^a  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cirrus clouds; Cloud radiative effects; Contrails chemtrails; Large eddy simulations

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; CLOUDS; FLIGHT PATHS; FLIGHT SIMULATORS; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION;

CIRRUS CLOUDS; CLOUD RADIATIVE EFFECTS; CONTRAILS/CHEMTRAILS; MITIGATION STRATEGY; MODEL AND SIMULATION; PHYSICALLY BASED MODELING; RADIATIVE FORCINGS; SCALING BEHAVIOR;

ICE;

CIRRUS; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTRAIL; ICE CRYSTAL; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION;

EID: 84904743194     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: 15200469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-13-0317.1     Document Type: Article

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