Clouds, contrails and climate

John H. Seinfeld ()
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John H. Seinfeld: California Institute of Technology

Nature, 1998, vol. 391, issue 6670, 837-838

Abstract: Cirrus clouds warm the Earth. Their formation is incompletely understood, but recent studies hint that they can evolve from jet contrails. This is an unsuspected, but possibly important, effect of human activity on climate — offering a new way to study the processes involved.

Date: 1998
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DOI: 10.1038/35974

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