Flake Effect: Airplanes Can Trigger Snowfall around Airports
Thursday, June 30, 2011 - 15:01
in Physics & Chemistry
Anyone who has ever seen a streaky line of vapor, known as a contrail, behind a high-flying aircraft knows that airplanes can produce their own clouds. But in rarer cases aircraft can also punch round holes or carve long channels through existing, natural clouds. [More]