The climate impact of COVID-19-induced contrail changes

<p>The COVID-19 pandemic caused significant economic disruption in 2020 and severely impacted air traffic. We use a state-of-the-art Earth system model and ensembles of tightly constrained simulations to evaluate the effect of the reductions in aviation traffic on contrail radiative forcing an...

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Main Authors: A. Gettelman, C.-C. Chen, C. G. Bardeen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2021-06-01
Series:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
Online Access:https://acp.copernicus.org/articles/21/9405/2021/acp-21-9405-2021.pdf