The impact of diurnal variations of air traffic on contrail radiative forcing

We combined high resolution aircraft flight data from the EU Fifth Framework Programme project AERO2k with analysis data from the ECMWF's integrated forecast system to calculate diurnally resolved 3-D contrail cover. We scaled the contrail cover in order to match observational data for the...

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Main Authors: N. Stuber, P. Forster
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2007-06-01
Series:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
Online Access:http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/7/3153/2007/acp-7-3153-2007.pdf