Articles | Volume 13, issue 24
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-12525-2013
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-12525-2013
Research article
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20 Dec 2013
Research article |  | 20 Dec 2013

Simulated radiative forcing from contrails and contrail cirrus

C.-C. Chen and A. Gettelman

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