The physics that lead to the conclusions that high (cirrus) clouds exert an
overall warming influence is pretty clear. Overall, in the solar, they are
not very reflectivea lot of light passes through them (and, of course, this
effect only operates when the Sun is up). Throughout the day, the cirru
The met office considered cirrus clouds, and my understanding of the
research is that their results show an increase in warming in response to
cloud seeding by jets. It is unlikely to be viable to get jets to fly so
low as to seed other types of cloud, as the effect on fuel consumption would
be hu
Dear Andrew,
A holding pattern that does not result in overlapping contrails would
result in more reflected sunlight but depends on temp (altitude) and the
fuel consumption at that time (water vapor produced). The balance
between any reflected short wave light reflected and IR would need to b
Is it possible to alter the flightpaths of commercial aircraft to ensure
that their contrails make the right kind of cloud to alter the radiative
balance favourably?
A
2010/1/9 Veli Albert Kallio
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> The British Army created a circular holding pattern to create an immense
> artificial coil in t
The British Army created a circular holding pattern to create an immense
artificial coil in the sky made of the military aeroplane's contrail. This was
then easy to distinguish and track by satellites to see undisputed, how
aeroplane emissions can be made to turn clear skies to artificial ci
