print email comment close Contrails URL: http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/wxwise/class/contrail.html Description: Brief introduction to "the condensation trail left behind jet aircrafts ... called contrails. Contrails form when hot humid air from jet exhaust mixes with environmental air of low vapor pressure and low temperature." Includes a brief discussion of how contrails "reduce the terrestrial energy losses of the planet, resulting in a warming." From a professor of atmospheric and ocean sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Author: Ackerman, Steve Extra Keywords global warming climate change LII Database Information: Record 21948 created by Maria Brandt on 06/25/2006 Last modification on 06/27/2006 Published: 06/29/2006   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/21948