Gundersen
Senior Member.
http://www.faa.gov/about/office_org...d_modeling/accri/media/accri_sswp_vi_ping.pdf
Aviation-Climate Change Research Initiative (ACCRI) - Subject specific white paper (SSWP) on Contrails/cirrus optics and radiation by:
Dr. Ping Yang, PI
Dr. Andrew Dessler, Co-PI
Dr. Gang Hong, Team member
Department of Atmospheric Sciences
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77843
I was discussing with a believer on twitter yesterday, and I was looking for something that could tell me something about how low- or high-pressure weather systems effected the consistency of contrails. I found the above mentioned white paper on contrails, which i found quite useful. I have not read it all, but I think a lot of you might be able to use this for something. I could without a doubt use the following paragraph:
I did a few searches, did not seem like this paper has been posted before. If it has, my apologies.
Aviation-Climate Change Research Initiative (ACCRI) - Subject specific white paper (SSWP) on Contrails/cirrus optics and radiation by:
Dr. Ping Yang, PI
Dr. Andrew Dessler, Co-PI
Dr. Gang Hong, Team member
Department of Atmospheric Sciences
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77843
I was discussing with a believer on twitter yesterday, and I was looking for something that could tell me something about how low- or high-pressure weather systems effected the consistency of contrails. I found the above mentioned white paper on contrails, which i found quite useful. I have not read it all, but I think a lot of you might be able to use this for something. I could without a doubt use the following paragraph:
The paper discuss how contrails and contrail-induced cirrus clouds are impacting the environment.
A contrail typically has a relatively short lifetime when formed in a subsaturated
environment — e.g., descending air of a high pressure system — and unlikely to have a
significant perturbation on climate. However, in supersaturated air — e.g., ascending air
of a low pressure system — a contrail may be quite persistent, and can quickly (minutes
to hours) spread into an extended cirrus deck.
I did a few searches, did not seem like this paper has been posted before. If it has, my apologies.