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Nature 391, 837-838 (26 February 1998) | doi:10.1038/35974
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Clouds, contrails and climate
John H. Seinfeld1
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.
- John H. Seinfeld is in the Division of Engineering and Applied Science and the Department of Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Mail Code 104-44, Pasadena, California 91125, USA.
e-mail: Email: seinfeld@cco.caltech.edu
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