Abstract
Several investigators have suggested that the airline shutdown following the 9/11 terrorist attacks led to a reduction of jet contrails and an increase in the diurnal temperature range (DTR) across the US. Here, we use an air-mass approach to control for weather conditions across the country following 9/11 in order to more accurately assess the observed patterns in the temperature range. We indeed find a higher-than-average DTR shortly after the attacks, but we find that the unusually clear weather across the US more than accounts for the observed DTR.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 1-4 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | Climate Research |
Volume | 26 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Apr 19 2004 |
Keywords
- Air masses
- Diurnal temperature range
- Jet contrails
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Environmental Chemistry
- General Environmental Science
- Atmospheric Science