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19 Feb 2010
Numerical simulations of contrail-to-cirrus transition – Part 1: An extensive parametric study
S. Unterstrasser
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
K. Gierens
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
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