The GLOBE (Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment) Program is NASA's largest and longest-operating citizen science program contributing Earth observations. Over 800,000 cloud observations have been reported worldwide since YEAR that include reports of short-lived, persistent, and persistent-spreading contrails. While contrails can be challenging to observe with space-borne platforms, humans are adept at spotting contrails from the ground. The NASA GLOBE Clouds team at NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia matches cloud observations to multiple satellite platforms for comparison, including: NASA's CERES (Clouds and Earth's Radiant Energy System) instrument onboard Terra and Aqua, CALIPSO (Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation), and geostationary satellites. A pilot project was started with select students in the United States to track airplanes above 25,000 ft and report airplane type, altitude, and report if a contrail was being or was not being produced. The objective of the pilot project was to establish if this is a scalable approach for building an international observational dataset documenting what types of airplanes are creating what types of contrails (short-lived, persistent, spreading) under what atmospheric conditions. Preliminary results of this pilot project will be presented.


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    Title :

    Leveraging Thousands of Contrail Observations from GLOBE Citizen Scientists


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting ; 2019 ; San Francisco, CA, United States


    Publication date :

    2019-12-09


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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