Articles | Volume 12, issue 10/11
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00585-994-0969-4
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00585-994-0969-4
31 Aug 1994
31 Aug 1994

A numerical study of contrail development

M. Boin and L. Levkov

Abstract. In this study, the formation of a contrail from an aircraft flying near the tropopause is simulated using a three-dimensional mesoscale atmospheric model including a very complex scheme of parameterized cloud microphysical processes. Two different primary ice nucleation parameterizations for deposition nucleation, condensation freezing, and contact freezing are applied. The model-predicted ice concentrations are compared to data measured during the International Cirrus Experiment (ICE), 1989.