Articles | Volume 25, issue 13
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-6843-2025
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-6843-2025
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04 Jul 2025
Research article |  | 04 Jul 2025

Kinematic properties of regions that can involve persistent contrails over the North Atlantic and Europe during April and May 2024

Sina Maria Hofer and Klaus Martin Gierens

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Ice supersaturation is an immaterial feature that does not generally move with the wind that carries contrails and cirrus clouds. Here we analyse the different motions and show that ice supersaturated regions (ISSRs) on average move slower than the wind, the direction of movement is usually quite similar, and the distributions of both velocities follow Weibull distributions. The almost identical direction of the movements is beneficial for contrail lifetimes.
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