Globally, emissions from aviation affect Earth's climate via complex processes. Contrail
cirrus and carbon dioxide emissions are the largest factors contributing to aviation's radiative …

The strong reduction of air traffic during the COVID-19 pandemic provides a unique test case
for the relationship between air traffic density, contrails, and their radiative forcing of climate …

Contrails are potentially the largest contributor to aviation-attributable climate change, but
estimates of their coverage are highly uncertain. No study has provided observation-based …

Contrails, Cirrus Trends, and Climate in: Journal of Climate Volume 17 Issue 8 (2004) Jump
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A new model to simulate and predict the properties of a large ensemble of contrails as a
function of given air traffic and meteorology is described. The model is designed for …

Persistent contrails make up a large fraction of aviation's contribution to global warming. We
describe a scalable, automated detection and matching (ADM) system to determine from …

The life cycle of individual (initially line shaped) contrails behind aircraft and of contrail cirrus
(aged contrails mixed with other ice clouds) is described. The full contrail life cycle is …

Mean properties of individual contrails are characterized for a wide range of jet aircraft as a
function of age during their life cycle from seconds to 11.5 h (7.4–18.7 km altitude,− 88 to …

Aviation induces changes in global cirrus cloudiness by producing contrails. In the past, line
shaped contrail coverage has been parameterized relying on the scaling of contrail …

The automatic contrail tracking algorithm (ACTA)–developed to automatically follow contrails
as they age, drift and spread–enables the study of a large number of contrails and the …