The "Contrail Cirrus Prediction Tool" CoCiP has been developed to simulate contrail cirrus resulting from a single flight as well as from a fleet of cruising aircraft, flight by flight, regionally or ...

Contrail cirrus may be the cause of most aviation warming, though uncertainty about the exact amount is high. Source: The contribution of global aviation to anthropogenic climate forcing for 2000 ...

Contrails consist mostly of water vapor, which turn into ice particles. They have a cirrus cloud-like appearance miles above the earth’s surface. Jet exhaust produces water vapor along with ...

“The reason for that is that the global modelers today tell us that the climate impact from contrails and aviation-induced ...

Contrail cirrus clouds trap heat in the atmosphere. The warming effects are worse at night when they're not also reflecting sunlight back into space. "Producing contrails is basically like ...

This occurs because the whiteness of the induced cloudiness from contrails reflects solar light back away from the Earth’s surface during the daytime, in a similar way to natural cirrus clouds ...

Condensation trails, or contrails for short ... “They’re very much the same as natural cirrus clouds, except they’re initially long and straight,” he tells Popular Science.

The National Weather Service says: "Condensation trails, commonly called contrails, are narrow cirrus cloud streamers that form behind high flying aircraft." The NASA website explains ...

“If you add up the effect of all the contrail cirrus clouds over the whole globe, it’s actually a pretty significant climate impact,” Moore said. “We think the magnitude of that impact is ...