AbstractAircraft 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.
A note on how to avoid contrail cirrus
Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment ; 10 , 5 ; 421-426
2005-01-01
6 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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