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contrail

[′kän‚trāl]
(meteorology)
condensation trail
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ACCRI researchers also examined the relationships between contrail ice particles and soot emissions.
Impact of aviation on climate: FAA's Aviation Climate Change Research Initiative (ACCRI) Phase II: current and future climate impacts of aviation emissions are quantified using a combination of atmospheric models, surface and satellite observations, and laboratory experiments
If a high-flying aircraft doesn't produce a contrail, it could be a sign that the plane is extremely high.
Laying down the line
5) assess cirrus and contrail cirrus predictability, and
ML-CIRRUS: the airborne experiment on natural Cirrus and contrail cirrus with the high-altitude Long-Range Research Aircraft HALO
Besides the satellite observation, there also have been many studies about the simulation of contrail formation and persistence through the parameterization in a general circulation model (GCM).
Verification for Different Contrail Parameterizations Based on Integrated Satellite Observation and ECMWF Reanalysis Data
Air chemist Dr Gavin Phillips, of the University of Chester, said: "The long, thin clouds, or contrails, that form behind aircraft are caused by water vapour in the jet engine exhaust condensing as ice in cold air.
Conspiracy frenzy over airplane 'chemtrails'
The threshold conditions for contrail formation occur at Point M, where the mixing line touches the water saturation curve.
Modelling and evaluation of aircraft contrails for 4-dimensional trajectory optimisation
Reportedly, as a part of the AIC, a foundational element of AT&T's software-centric network, AT&T will use Contrail Networking to help automate and virtualise the network to rapidly scale and accelerate the deployment of new services.
Juniper Networks' Contrail Networking selected by AT&T
Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR) said that Cyberport will deploy Juniper Networks Contrail as the virtual network solution for its Cyberport Community Cloud.
Cyberport picks Juniper Networks Contrail for community cloud
Summary: The straight horizontal white contrails left by Israeli jets criss-crossing Lebanese skies on a near daily basis are a common sight.
Are Israeli drones being attacked in the skies above Lebanon?
Contrail was founded early this year by officials from Google, Cisco, Juniper and Aruba.
Juniper buys SDN startup for $176M
Nurse Contrail, a hospital employee on duty to assist in the surgery, was charged with the responsibility of ordering the blood.
Delay in ordering blood resulted in death & $9 million verdict
this was anything other than a contrail caused by an aircraft," said Colonel
Mysterious vapor trail off California likely caused by plane -- Pentagon

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