Statistical analysis of contrail to cirrus evolution during the Contrail and Cirrus Experiment (CONCERT)

Chauvigné, Aurélien; Jourdan, Olivier; Schwarzenboeck, Alfons; Gourbeyre, Christophe; Gayet, Jean François; Voigt, Christiane; Schlager, Hans; Kaufmann, Stefan; Borrmann, Stephan; Molleker, Sergej; Minikin, Andreas; Jurkat, Tina; Schumann, Ulrich

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Statistical analysis of contrail to cirrus evolution during the Contrail and Cirrus Experiment (CONCERT)

Aurélien Chauvigné, Olivier Jourdan, Alfons Schwarzenboeck, Christophe Gourbeyre, Jean François Gayet, Christiane Voigt, Hans Schlager, Stefan Kaufmann, Stephan Borrmann, Sergej Molleker, Andreas Minikin, Tina Jurkat, and Ulrich Schumann

Aurélien Chauvigné

CORRESPONDING AUTHOR

aurelien.chauvigne@univ-lille1.fr

Laboratoire de Météorologie Physique, UMR 6016 CNRS/Université Clermont Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France

Olivier Jourdan

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0890-3784

Laboratoire de Météorologie Physique, UMR 6016 CNRS/Université Clermont Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France

Alfons Schwarzenboeck

Laboratoire de Météorologie Physique, UMR 6016 CNRS/Université Clermont Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France

Christophe Gourbeyre

Laboratoire de Météorologie Physique, UMR 6016 CNRS/Université Clermont Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France

Jean François Gayet

Laboratoire de Météorologie Physique, UMR 6016 CNRS/Université Clermont Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France

Christiane Voigt

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8925-7731

Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany

Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Universität Mainz, Mainz, Germany

Hans Schlager

Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany

Stefan Kaufmann

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0767-1996

Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany

Stephan Borrmann

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4774-9380

Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Universität Mainz, Mainz, Germany

Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Department for Particle Chemistry, Mainz, Germany

Sergej Molleker

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2980-0330

Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Universität Mainz, Mainz, Germany

Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Department for Particle Chemistry, Mainz, Germany

Andreas Minikin

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0999-4657

Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany

now at: Flugexperimente, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany

Tina Jurkat

Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany

Ulrich Schumann

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5255-6869

Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany

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This paper demonstrates a new form of statistical analysis of contrail to cirrus evolution. The authors show well-separated analyses of the different stages of the contrail's evolution, which allows us to study their optical, microphysical, and chemical properties. These results could be used to develop representative parameterizations of the scattering and geometrical properties of the ice crystals’ shapes and sizes, observed in the visible wavelength range.

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