Articles | Volume 23, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-1941-2023
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-1941-2023
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06 Feb 2023
Research article |  | 06 Feb 2023

Observations of microphysical properties and radiative effects of a contrail cirrus outbreak over the North Atlantic

Ziming Wang, Luca Bugliaro, Tina Jurkat-Witschas, Romy Heller, Ulrike Burkhardt, Helmut Ziereis, Georgios Dekoutsidis, Martin Wirth, Silke Groß, Simon Kirschler, Stefan Kaufmann, and Christiane Voigt

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Differences in the microphysical properties of contrail cirrus and natural cirrus in a contrail outbreak situation during the ML-CIRRUS campaign over the North Atlantic flight corridor can be observed from in situ measurements. The cirrus radiative effect in the area of the outbreak, derived from satellite observation-based radiative transfer modeling, is warming in the early morning and cooling during the day.
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