Contrails and their impact on shortwave radiation and photovoltaic power production – a regional model study

Gruber, Simon; Unterstrasser, Simon; Bechtold, Jan; Vogel, Heike; Jung, Martin; Pak, Henry; Vogel, Bernhard

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-6393-2018

Articles | Volume 18, issue 9

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-6393-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-6393-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 18, issue 9

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07 May 2018

Research article | Highlight paper |

| 07 May 2018

Contrails and their impact on shortwave radiation and photovoltaic power production – a regional model study

Simon Gruber, Simon Unterstrasser, Jan Bechtold, Heike Vogel, Martin Jung, Henry Pak, and Bernhard Vogel

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Final revised paper (published on 07 May 2018)
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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Review', Ulrich Schumann, 14 Nov 2017
- AC1: 'Answer to Referee #1', Simon Gruber, 29 Jan 2018
RC2: 'Review', Anonymous Referee #3, 22 Dec 2017
- AC2: 'Answer to Referee #3', Simon Gruber, 29 Jan 2018
RC3: 'Review of "Contrails and Their Impact on Shortwave Radiation and Photovoltaic Power Production - A Regional Model Study"', Anonymous Referee #1, 22 Dec 2017
- AC3: 'Answer to Referee #1', Simon Gruber, 29 Jan 2018

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Simon Gruber on behalf of the Authors (29 Jan 2018) Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (26 Feb 2018) by Nikos Hatzianastassiou

RR by Anonymous Referee #3 (12 Mar 2018)

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (13 Mar 2018)

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (04 Apr 2018) by Nikos Hatzianastassiou

AR by Simon Gruber on behalf of the Authors (10 Apr 2018) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (19 Apr 2018) by Nikos Hatzianastassiou

AR by Simon Gruber on behalf of the Authors (20 Apr 2018) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (24 Apr 2018) by Nikos Hatzianastassiou

AR by Simon Gruber on behalf of the Authors (24 Apr 2018)

Short summary

A numerical model also used for operational weather forecast was applied to investigate the impact of contrails and contrail cirrus on the radiative fluxes at the earth's surface. Accounting for contrails produced by aircraft enables the model to simulate high clouds that are otherwise missing. In a case study, we find that the effect of these extra clouds is to reduce the incoming shortwave radiation at the surface as well as the production of photovoltaic power by up to 10 %.