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Originally posted by GenRadek
reply to post by BoboIsBlue
Once again, an understanding of summer weather patterns + pressure gradients + RH and weather conditions all work together to create contrail or no contrail days.
Originally posted by Essan
reply to post by BoboIsBlue
On the other hand, the Appleman Chart was devised in the early 1950s and, strange as it may seem, research into contrail formation has moved on a bit since then
See, for example,
A new formulation for the critical temperature for contrail formation
An empirical model to predict widespread occurence of contrails
468.4 6096 -25.4 -35.4 39 0.40 250 22 307.7 309.2 307.8
456.0 6291 -24.3 -42.3 17 0.20 248 28 311.4 312.2 311.5
450.0 6388 -23.3 -42.3 16 0.21 248 32 313.9 314.7 313.9
446.0 6453 -23.5 -45.5 11 0.15 247 34 314.4 315.0 314.5
441.0 6536 -24.1 -40.1 21 0.27 246 36 314.7 315.7 314.7
432.0 6686 -25.3 -37.3 32 0.36 245 41 315.0 316.4 315.1
430.8 6706 -25.4 -38.0 30 0.34 245 42 315.1 316.4 315.2
421.0 6873 -26.5 -43.5 19 0.19 245 41 315.8 316.6 315.9
406.0 7134 -28.9 -42.9 25 0.21 245 40 316.0 316.8 316.0
400.0 7240 -29.7 -44.7 22 0.18 245 40 316.3 317.0 316.3
378.9 7620 -33.2 -48.2 21 0.13 245 38 316.6 317.1 316.6
358.0 8019 -36.9 -51.9 20 0.09 247 34 316.8 317.2 316.9
332.0 8534 -40.3 -57.5 14 0.05 250 28 319.0 319.2 319.1
311.0 8979 -43.3 -62.3 11 0.03 257 28 320.9 321.0 320.9
303.4 9144 -44.7 -63.7 10 0.02 260 28 321.2 321.4 321.2
Originally posted by BlueRaja...feel that the purpose is to adversely affect one's health?...What are the symptoms of inhaling these chemicals?
Originally posted by Chadwickus
reply to post by BoboIsBlue
It's funny you mention contrails are at a minimum this time of year.
This thread shows that the phenomena is possibly seasonal.
Link here:
www.abovetopsecret.com...
Make what you will of it.
[edit on 17-1-2009 by Chadwickus]