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Articles | Volume 18, issue 14
Articles | Volume 18, issue 14
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-18-3495-2025
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-18-3495-2025
© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 18, issue 14
Research article
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28 Jul 2025
Research article |  | 28 Jul 2025

Benchmarking and improving algorithms for attributing satellite-observed contrails to flights

Aaron Sarna, Vincent Meijer, Rémi Chevallier, Allie Duncan, Kyle McConnaughay, Scott Geraedts, and Kevin McCloskey

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Contrails, the clouds formed by aircraft, are have a substantial climate impact. Determining which flight formed each contrail is a critical step to decreasing this impact. We introduce a dataset of synthetic contrail observations with known flight attributions that can be used to develop and assess geostationary-satellite-based contrail-to-flight attribution systems. We additionally introduce a new attribution algorithm and show that it outperforms previous methods.
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