Bock, L.; et al. (2019): Contrail cirrus radiative forcing for future air traffic
Bock, L.; Burkhardt, U. (2019): Contrail cirrus radiative forcing for future air traffic. In: Atmos. Chem. Phys 19 (12), S. 8163–8174. DOI: 10.5194/acp-19-8163-2019.
„The climate impact of air traffic is to a large degree caused by changes in cirrus cloudiness resulting from the formation of contrails. Contrail cirrus radiative forcing is expected to increase significantly over time due to the large projected increases in air traffic. We use ECHAM5-CCMod, an atmospheric climate model with an online contrail cirrus parameterization including a microphysical two-moment scheme, to investigate the climate impact of contrail cirrus for the year 2050.“