Technical Primer

Technical Primer

Introducing ContrailBench: Measuring contrail forecasts against reality

This post describes a new framework to evaluate contrail forecasts against real-world observations.

Technical Primer

Observing Contrails (A Trifle Complicated)

This post describes the ways we can observe and measure contrails to evaluate contrail forecast models and improve our understanding of contrail effects.

Technical Primer

Contrail Regions 101 (Part I)

This post is the first in a series breaking down the structure of persistent contrail regions and how these shapes inform navigational avoidance strategies. In this first post, we look at the thickness of contrail regions.

Technical Primer

Comparing contrails and CO2

This technical primer highlights key differences between contrail and CO2 warming and provides guidance on ways to make meaningful comparisons of the two.