GLOBE Earth Science Week 2005 Contrail Count-a-Thon

The Event

In celebration of Earth Science Week 2005, interested people all around the world were invited to observe and report contrails between 11:00 and 13:00 local time on Oct. 13, 2005. It is not too late to record your observation reports. Contact the GLOBE Help Desk for instructions.

Analysis of the data has begun. Below is a map of the total number of contrails reported. So far, we have no reports from the Southern Hemisphere. map showing the total number of contrails reported from around the world

For detailed instructions and reporting forms, visit http://www.globe.gov/earthsciweek2005. (Aussi en français. Y en español.)

Story about the event in NASA Langley's newsletter

Notice about the event on the NASA website

Article on the Count-a-Thons in EOS, the weekly publication of the American Geophysical Union

Handout pdf (3.5 MB) or jpg

Materials

A Contrail Education Newsletter (5.9 MB pdf file) has been developed with background information about why contrails are of interest. You can also see individual pages of the newsletter (smaller files).
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