Articles | Volume 12, issue 17
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-12-8157-2012
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-12-8157-2012
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11 Sep 2012
Research article |  | 11 Sep 2012

A methodology for in-situ and remote sensing of microphysical and radiative properties of contrails as they evolve into cirrus

H. M. Jones, J. Haywood, F. Marenco, D. O'Sullivan, J. Meyer, R. Thorpe, M. W. Gallagher, M. Krämer, K. N. Bower, G. Rädel, A. Rap, A. Woolley, P. Forster, and H. Coe

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