Weather images at 2:43 courtesy of https://windy.com
Satellite images at 1:33 courtesy of Landsat/Copernicus.
Satellite images from 2:46-4:01 and 5:08-5:12 courtesy of Landsat.
Satellite images from 4:01-4:17 courtesy of GOES-16/NOAA.
Research papers:
Sridhar, Banavar & Ng, Hok & Chen, Neil. (2011). Aircraft Trajectory Optimization and Contrails Avoidance in the Presence of Winds. Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics. 34. 10.2514/1.53378.
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Raymond L et al. 2022. “Contrail coverage over the United States before and during the
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Adapted with permission from Mitigating the Climate Forcing of Aircraft Contrails by Small-Scale Diversions and Technology Adoption. Roger Teoh, Ulrich Schumann, Arnab Majumdar, and Marc E. J. Stettler. Environmental Science & Technology 2020 54 (5), 2941-2950, DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.9b05608
Teoh, R., Schumann, U., Gryspeerdt, E., Shapiro, M., Molloy, J., Koudis, G., Voigt, C., and Stettler, M. E. J.: Aviation contrail climate effects in the North Atlantic from 2016 to 2021, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 22, 10919–10935, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-10919-2022, 2022.
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