Contrail Diagnosis

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Calculations of Aircraft Contrail Formation Critical Temperatures
Journal of Applied Meteorology, Volume 36, Issue 12 (December 1997)
Mark L. Schrader (Air Weather Service, Scott Air Force Base, Illinois)

On the Possibility of Weather Modification by Aircraft Contrails
Monthly Weather Review, Vol 98, No 10, October 1970
Wallace B. Murcray (Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska, College, Alaska, USA)

Identifying the uncertainties in radiative forcing of climate from avaition contrails and aiviation-induced currus
Research report issued by Defence Evaluation and Research Agency, September 2000
D. S. Lee (Defence Evaluation and Research Agency, Farnborough, Hampshire, UK), et al

Aircraft Induced Condensation
Lecture/Presentation, Athens Summer School 2007
Klaus Gierens (Institut fur Physik der Atmosphare, DLR Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany)

The Effects of Aircraft Wake Dynamics on Contrail Development
Journal Of The Atmospheric Sciences, Volume 58, 15 February 2001
D. C. Lewellen and W. S. Lewellen (Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, USA)

Coronas and Iridescence in Mountain Wave Clouds Over Northeastern Colorado
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Volume 84, Issue 10 (October 2003)
Paul J. Neiman (NOAA/Environmental Technology Laboratory, Boulder, Colorado, USA) and Joseph A. Shaw (Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, USA)

A Case Study of the Development of Contrail Clusters over the Great Lakes
Journal Of The Atmospheric Sciences, Volume 61, Issue 10 (May 2004)
David P. Duda (Hampton University, Hampton, Virginia, USA), Patrick Minnis and Louis Nguyen (Atmospheric Sciences, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia, USA), and Rabindra Palikonda (AS&M, Inc., Hampton, Virginia, USA)

Large-Eddy Simulation of Contrails
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, Volume 55, Issue 5 (March 1998)
Andreas Chlond (Max-Planck-Institut fur Meteorologie, Hamburg, Germany)

Spreading of isolated contrails during the 2001 air traffic shutdown
10th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology 13-16 May 2002 Portland, OR USA, May 2002
Patrick Minnis, Louis Nguyen (Atmospheric Sciences, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA USA), David P. Duda (Hampton University, Hampton, VA USA), Rabindra Palikonda (AS&M, Inc., Hampton, VA USA)

CONTRAILS: Related References
SASS (Subsonic Assessment Program)
NASA Langley Cloud and Radiation Research

CONTRAILS
Encyclopedia of Atmospheric Sciences
P Minnis (NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, USA)

On the Transition of Contrails into Cirrus Clouds
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, Volume 57, Feb 2000
F. Schroder (Institut fur Physik der Atmosphare, DLR, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany), et al

The Effects of Aircraft Wake Dynamics on Contrail Development
Journal Of The Atmospheric Sciences, Volume 58, 15 Feb 2001
D. C. Lewellen and W. S. Lewellen (Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, West Virginia University, Morgantown, VA USA)

Transformation of Contrails into Cirrus during SUCCESS
Geophys. Res. Ltrs., 25, April 15, 1998
Patrick Minnis (NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA USA), et al