Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10508739 | Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment | 2005 | 6 Pages |
Abstract
Aircraft induced cirrus clouds have a major effect on climate. Here we use operational radiosonde data with high vertical resolution to estimate the effect of a small change in flight altitudes on the contrail and cirrus formation. It is shown that a substantial fraction of contrails and contrail induced cirrus can be avoided by relatively small changes in flight level, due to the shallowness of ice-super-saturation layers.
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Authors
Hermann Mannstein, Peter Spichtinger, Klaus Gierens,