ContrailBench

Benchmarking forecasts for contrail avoidance.

Overview

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Reports

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Reports

Participating forecasts

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Forecast

Type

Added

Contrails.org

Deterministic, physics-based

2026 Q1

Google

Probabilistic, ML-physics hybrid

2026 Q1

Evaluation datasets

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Observation

Type

Added

GRUAN

In-situ (radiosonde)

2026 Q1

IAGOS

In-situ (aircraft)

2026 Q1

ContrailWatch

Geostationary Satellite

2026 Q1