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contrail

[′kän‚trāl]
(meteorology)
condensation trail
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Shulski and her colleagues have used their observations to develop a mathematical model for predicting whether or not contrails will form behind an aircraft.
Contrails forecast on the horizon. (Atmospheric Science)
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Others spread farther, forming contrail cirrus clouds that are indistinguishable from natural cirrus.
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9 percent water vapor amounts to about five pounds of water per second poured into a contrail by a widebody aircraft.
Laying down the line
During flight tests in 2013 and 2014 near NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, data was collected on the effects of alternative fuels on engine performance, emissions and aircraft-generated contrails at altitudes flown by commercial airliners.
NASA confirms biofuels reduce exhaust emissions by 50-70%
In spring 2014, HALO performed 16 flights above Europe with a focus on anthropogenic contrail cirrus and midlatitude cirrus induced by frontal systems including warm conveyor belts and other dynamical regimes (jet streams, mountain waves, and convection).
ML-CIRRUS: the airborne experiment on natural Cirrus and contrail cirrus with the high-altitude Long-Range Research Aircraft HALO
STC's new Contrail Networking-based service platform reduces time-to-market
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STC opts for NFV with Juniper Networks
The theory first gained popularity in 1996 when the US Air Force was accused of spraying the population with mysterious substances from aircraft generating unusual contrail patterns.
Conspiracy frenzy over airplane 'chemtrails'
This article presents a contrail model algorithm specifically developed to be integrated within a multi-objective flight trajectory optimization software framework.
Modelling and evaluation of aircraft contrails for 4-dimensional trajectory optimisation
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