Articles | Volume 17, issue 20
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-6145-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-6145-2024
Research article
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23 Oct 2024
Research article |  | 23 Oct 2024

Contrail altitude estimation using GOES-16 ABI data and deep learning

Vincent R. Meijer, Sebastian D. Eastham, Ian A. Waitz, and Steven R. H. Barrett

Data sets

Contrail altitude estimation using GOES-16 ABI data and deep learning: Dataset of contrails collocated with CALIOP satellite measurements Vincent R. Meijer et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13737958

Contrail altitude estimation using GOES-16 ABI data and deep learning: software Vincent Meijer et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13959874

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Aviation's climate impact is partly due to contrails: the clouds that form behind aircraft and which can linger for hours under certain atmospheric conditions. Accurately forecasting these conditions could allow aircraft to avoid forming these contrails and thus reduce their environmental footprint. Our research uses deep learning to identify three-dimensional contrail locations in two-dimensional satellite imagery, which can be used to assess and improve these forecasts.