On the life time of contrail cirrus

Here we present results constraining the mean life time of contrail cirrus based on comparisons of results from a new contrail cirrus model, ECMWF forecast data and several years of Meteosat satellite observations for the North Atlantic and Europe.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Schumann, Ulrich, Graf, Kaspar
Format: Conference Object
Language:German
Published: 2012
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Online Access:https://elib.dlr.de/75659/
https://elib.dlr.de/75659/1/EGU2012-3768.pdf
https://elib.dlr.de/75659/2/Schumann_EGU_2012.pdf
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2012/EGU2012-3768.pdf
Description
Summary:Here we present results constraining the mean life time of contrail cirrus based on comparisons of results from a new contrail cirrus model, ECMWF forecast data and several years of Meteosat satellite observations for the North Atlantic and Europe.