Contrail properties over the eastern North Pacific from AVHRR data

An increase of air traffic over the North Pacific during the last 30 years has been accompanied by an increase in cirrus coverage. To help alleviate the uncertainty in the contribution of air traffic to the cirrus increase, an analysis of linear contrail coverage over the region has been initiated u...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Patrick Minnis, Rabindra Palikonda, Bryan J. Walter, J. Kirk Ayers, Hermann Mannstein
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Borntraeger 2005-09-01
Series:Meteorologische Zeitschrift
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1127/0941-2948/2005/0056