Articles | Volume 18, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-18-253-2025
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-18-253-2025
Model description paper
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21 Jan 2025
Model description paper |  | 21 Jan 2025

Forecasting contrail climate forcing for flight planning and air traffic management applications: the CocipGrid model in pycontrails 0.51.0

Zebediah Engberg, Roger Teoh, Tristan Abbott, Thomas Dean, Marc E. J. Stettler, and Marc L. Shapiro

Model code and software

pycontrails: Python library for modelling aviation climate impacts (v0.51.0) Marc L. Shapiro et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11263606

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Short summary
Contrails forming in some atmospheric conditions may persist and become strongly warming cirrus, while in other conditions may be neutral or cooling. We develop a contrail forecast model to predict contrail climate forcing for any arbitrary point in space and time and explore integration into flight planning and air traffic management. This approach enables contrail interventions to target high-probability high-climate-impact regions and reduce unintended consequences of contrail management.