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This NOAA webpage describes contrails and explains both their origins and how they spread out. The page includes a satellite image showing a dense accumulation of contrails over part of Europe. The page also includes a link to a University of Wisconsin webpage with four time-lapse images of contrails spreading over the course of an hour.
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![]() <a href="https://www.compadre.org/informal/items/detail.cfm?ID=11460">National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/National Weather Service. What is a contrail and how does it form?. Silver Spring: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/National Weather Service, 2004.</a>
![]() (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/National Weather Service, Silver Spring, 2004), WWW Document, (https://www.wrh.noaa.gov/fgz/science/contrail.php?wfo=fgz).
![]() What is a contrail and how does it form? (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/National Weather Service, Silver Spring, 2004), <https://www.wrh.noaa.gov/fgz/science/contrail.php?wfo=fgz>.
![]() What is a contrail and how does it form?. (2004). Retrieved April 28, 2025, from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/National Weather Service: https://www.wrh.noaa.gov/fgz/science/contrail.php?wfo=fgz
![]() National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/National Weather Service. What is a contrail and how does it form?. Silver Spring: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/National Weather Service, 2004. https://www.wrh.noaa.gov/fgz/science/contrail.php?wfo=fgz (accessed 28 April 2025).
![]() What is a contrail and how does it form?. Silver Spring: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/National Weather Service, 2004. 28 Apr. 2025 <https://www.wrh.noaa.gov/fgz/science/contrail.php?wfo=fgz>.
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Title = {What is a contrail and how does it form?},
Publisher = {National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/National Weather Service},
Volume = {2025},
Number = {28 April 2025},
Year = {2004}
}
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