Aviation effects on already-existing cirrus clouds

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Tesche, Matthias ^a,b   Achtert, Peggy ^a,c   Glantz, Paul ^a   Noone, Kevin J ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; CIRRUS; CONTRAIL; LIDAR; MEASUREMENT METHOD; SATELLITE IMAGERY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AIRCRAFT; LATITUDE; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; THICKNESS;

EID: 84975879209     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms12016     Document Type: Article

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