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Articles | Volume 24, issue 8
Articles | Volume 24, issue 8
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-5009-2024
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-5009-2024
© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 24, issue 8
Research article
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29 Apr 2024
Research article |  | 29 Apr 2024

Distribution and morphology of non-persistent contrail and persistent contrail formation areas in ERA5

Kevin Wolf, Nicolas Bellouin, and Olivier Boucher

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The contrail formation potential and its tempo-spatial distribution are estimated for the North Atlantic flight corridor. Meteorological conditions of temperature and relative humidity are taken from the ERA5 re-analysis and IAGOS. Based on IAGOS flight tracks, crossing length, size, orientation, frequency of occurrence, and overlap of persistent contrail formation areas are determined. The presented conclusions might provide a guide for statistical flight track optimization to reduce contrails.
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