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| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
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| Modified link of Web site: ACS Publications - Revisiting Contrail Ice Formation: Impact of Primary Soot Particle Sizes and Contribution of Volatile Particles. | Aug 01, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: ACS Publications - Revisiting Contrail Ice Formation: Impact of Primary Soot Particle Sizes and Contribution of Volatile Particles. | Oct 27, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: United States Environmental Protection Agency - Information on Contrails from Aircraft. | Sep 06, 2025 | ||
| Article updated and revised. | Jul 14, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Pennsylvania State University - CiteSeerX - Influence of propulsion efficiency on contrail formation (PDF). | Mar 25, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: CORE - Extinction and optical depth of contrails. | Jan 14, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: CORE - Contrail Formation: Analysis of Sublimation Mechanisms (PDF). | Nov 23, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Nature - Nature Communications - Formation and radiative forcing of contrail cirrus. | Sep 16, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Penn State Institute of Energy and the Environment - Growing Impact: Contrails and climate change. | Jul 22, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Space.com - Contrails: What are they and how do they form? | Apr 19, 2024 | ||
| Added material about contrail formation. | Mar 25, 2020 | ||
| In the discussion of a conspiracy theory, added a space between "the" and "1990s." | Aug 11, 2018 | ||
| Add new Web site: Federal Aviation Administration - Aircraft Contrails Factsheet. | Aug 09, 2018 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Weather Service - Western Region Headquarters - What Is a Contrail and How Does It Form? | Aug 09, 2018 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Aeronautics and Space Administration - Contrails. | Aug 09, 2018 | ||
| Changed article title from "vapour trail" to "contrail." | Aug 06, 2018 | ||
| Added material about the chemtrail theory. | Aug 06, 2018 | ||
| Corrected display issue. | May 23, 2018 | ||
| Media added. | Aug 14, 2008 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |
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