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Articles | Volume 23, issue 1
Articles | Volume 23, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-287-2023
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-287-2023
© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 23, issue 1
Research article
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09 Jan 2023
Research article |  | 09 Jan 2023

Long-term upper-troposphere climatology of potential contrail occurrence over the Paris area derived from radiosonde observations

Kevin Wolf, Nicolas Bellouin, and Olivier Boucher

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Recent studies estimate the radiative impact of contrails to be similar to or larger than that of emitted CO2; thus, contrail mitigation might be an opportunity to reduce the climate effects of aviation. A radiosonde data set is analyzed in terms of the vertical distribution of potential contrails, contrail mitigation by flight altitude changes, and linkages with the tropopause and jet stream. The effect of prospective jet engine developments and alternative fuels are estimated.
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