Weather officials say different types of clouds can tell you what kind of weather to expect. Here's a look at the different ...

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 ...

Contrails conjure a sense of something overwhelming and ineffable, as terrifying as it is beautiful. By Kate Folk I spend most days working from home, in my apartment in San Francisco’s Richmond ...

“The reason for that is that the global modelers today tell us that the climate impact from contrails and aviation-induced cirrus clouds is about the same warming impact as the past century’s ...

Contrails (or condensation trails ... trapping heat from the Earth's surface similar to regular cirrus clouds. The study, by campaign group Transport Energy, says their warming effect is at ...

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 ...

Contrails are clouds that form at high altitudes in cold ... Enough ice crystals, and they begin to form cirrus clouds -- high-altitude, wispy white filaments that, when created this way, trail out ...

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.

Gryspeerdt’s work explores how contrails can serve as a “natural experiment” for understanding how human activities influence the formation of natural cirrus clouds. This research is crucial ...

Contrails, short for condensation trails, are thin clouds formed from the water vapor produced by aircraft exhausts at high altitudes. Their cirrus-like formations, though visually pleasing to ...