Contrail Research Dataset
Where do flight activity, aviation weather, atmospheric context, corridor volume, and contrail visual evidence overlap?
Aviation-weather evidence for contrail research
Preview shows mapped records, source mix, key fields, source URLs, and known limitations.
airport/corridor + observation time/year + source stream + measured atmospheric, aviation, traffic, or imagery field
source_stream
observation_time_utc
airport_or_corridor
latitude
longitude
published_field
published_value
published_unit
method_or_definition
source_url
limitations
Flight, weather, and corridor evidence in one dataset.
The package joins flight-position, aviation weather, pilot-report, upper-air, corridor-volume, and visual context records into one exportable dataset with dates, locations, published measurements or status fields, source lineage, and limitations.
Mapped records by place and reporting period
Integrated dataset preview
DeepWave records include dates, locations, measured values or source-published status fields, source lineage, quality, and limitations from the integrated public-source package.
METAR altimeter at observation time when published by the API.
Altimeter values support weather context and are not a contrail observation.METAR wind speed at observation time.
Surface wind is not a direct contrail indicator; it is included for flight-weather context.METAR dew point at observation time.
Airport-surface dew point supports weather-window context only; upper-level relative humidity is required for contrail persistence analysis.METAR temperature at observation time.
Airport-surface weather supports contrail research context but is not a flight-level humidity or contrail detection measurement.OpenSky state vector barometric altitude for an airborne aircraft over the U.S. bounding box.
OpenSky is a crowdsourced ADS-B research network with coverage and rate-limit constraints; this row is flight-position context, not a contrail sighting.OpenSky state vector velocity for an airborne aircraft over the U.S. bounding box.
Velocity is flight-path context only and does not indicate contrail formation.OpenSky state vector true track for an airborne aircraft over the U.S. bounding box.
Track heading is corridor context only and does not indicate contrail formation.OpenSky state vector vertical rate for an airborne aircraft over the U.S. bounding box.
Vertical rate is flight-path context only and does not indicate contrail formation.Annual origin-airport passenger sum for selected high-traffic U.S. airports.
T-100 airport totals provide corridor-volume context, not individual flight tracks or contrail observations.Annual origin-airport departure sum for selected high-traffic U.S. airports.
T-100 departure totals provide corridor-volume context, not contrail observations.What this dataset should not be used for
claiming a contrail was observed from a flight track alone; the dataset separates flight/weather context from visual evidence