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- CONTRAILS FACT SHEET - Federal Aviation Administration
What are Contrails? Contrails, short for condensation trails, are line-shaped clouds produced by an airplane’s hot engine exhaust interacting with cold humid air several miles above t
- Contrails or condensation trails - Met Office
Contrails or condensation trails Contrails are frequently seen criss-crossing the sky and are created from water vapour coming out of an aircraft's engines
- Information on Contrails from Aircraft - US EPA
Jet aircraft form contrails under these atmospheric conditions for the same reason that you can see the exhaust from your vehicle or your own breath on a cold day Contrails are a normal effect of jet aircraft operations and have been since its earliest days of air travel
- More eyes on the skies can help planes reduce climate-warming contrails
Aviation's climate impact is partly due to contrails—condensation that a plane streaks across the sky when it flies through icy and humid layers of the atmosphere Contrails trap heat that
- Airspace: Contrails - NASA
Contrails are a type of ice cloud, formed by aircraft as water vapor condenses around small dust particles, which provide the vapor with suficient energy to freeze
- Contrail | Meaning, Facts, Conspiracy | Britannica
contrail, streamer of cloud sometimes observed behind an airplane flying in clear, cold, humid air A contrail forms when water vapor produced by the combustion of fuel in airplane engines condenses upon soot particles or sulfur aerosols in the plane’s exhaust
- Contrail - Wikipedia
In general, aircraft contrails trap outgoing longwave radiation emitted by the Earth and atmosphere more than they reflect incoming solar radiation, resulting in a net increase in radiative forcing
- What Are Contrails, and Are They Bad for the Environment?
What are contrails? Contrails, short for condensation trails, form when the hot, moist exhaust from an airplane’s engine meets the cold, low-pressure atmosphere at high altitudes
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