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Li, Qiang and Groß, Silke Martha (2021) Changes in cirrus cloud properties and occurrence over Europe during the COVID-19-caused air traffic reduction. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP), 21 (19), pp. 14573-14590. Copernicus Publications. doi: 10.5194/acp-21-14573-2021. ISSN 1680-7316.
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Abstract
. By inducing linear contrails and contrail cirrus, air traffic has a main impact on the ice cloud coverage and occurrence. During the COVID-19 pandemic, civil air traffic over Europe was significantly reduced, in March and April 2020, to about 80 % compared to the year before. This unique situation allows us to study the effect of air traffic on cirrus clouds. This work investigates, based on satellite lidar measurements, if and how cirrus cloud properties and occurrence changed over Europe in the course of COVID-19. Cirrus cloud properties are analyzed for different years between 2014 and 2019, which showed similar teorological conditions for the month of April as in 2020.
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| Document Type: | Article | ||||||||||||
| Title: | Changes in cirrus cloud properties and occurrence over Europe during the COVID-19-caused air traffic reduction | ||||||||||||
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| Date: | 4 October 2021 | ||||||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP) | ||||||||||||
| Refereed publication: | Yes | ||||||||||||
| Open Access: | Yes | ||||||||||||
| Gold Open Access: | Yes | ||||||||||||
| In SCOPUS: | Yes | ||||||||||||
| In ISI Web of Science: | Yes | ||||||||||||
| Volume: | 21 | ||||||||||||
| DOI: | 10.5194/acp-21-14573-2021 | ||||||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 14573-14590 | ||||||||||||
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| Publisher: | Copernicus Publications | ||||||||||||
| ISSN: | 1680-7316 | ||||||||||||
| Status: | Published | ||||||||||||
| Keywords: | Lidar; CALIPSO; Cirrus; Cloud; Linear particle depolarization ratio; COVID19; | ||||||||||||
| HGF - Research field: | Aeronautics, Space and Transport | ||||||||||||
| HGF - Program: | Space | ||||||||||||
| HGF - Program Themes: | Earth Observation | ||||||||||||
| DLR - Research area: | Raumfahrt | ||||||||||||
| DLR - Program: | R EO - Earth Observation | ||||||||||||
| DLR - Research theme (Project): | R - Project MABAK | ||||||||||||
| Location: | Oberpfaffenhofen | ||||||||||||
| Institutes and Institutions: | Institute of Atmospheric Physics > Lidar | ||||||||||||
| Deposited By: | Li, Dr. Qiang | ||||||||||||
| Deposited On: | 14 Oct 2021 08:05 | ||||||||||||
| Last Modified: | 06 Nov 2025 15:51 |
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