Air Traffic Shutdown Study

Contents

1. Air Traffic Denisty.
2. News articles and related publications.
3. Satellite Contrail Imagery.

1. Air Traffic Denisty:

1. Hourly flight traffic on 09/03 (normal). (GIF animation)
2. Hourly flight traffic on 09/11 (suspended). (GIF animation)
3. Number of flights above 25,000 ft, 10 September 2001.

2. News articles and related publications:

1. Minnis, P., L. Nguyen, D. P. Duda and R. Palikonda, 2002: " Spreading of isolated contrails during the 2001 air traffic shutdown ". Proc. 10th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology, Portland, OR, May13-16, 2002.
2. Cover of AVRAMS Conference Proceedings.
3. The Weather Channel segment on contrails. (Windows Media Player needed)
4. October 30, 2001 NY Times article on post-Septmber 11th contrail studies.
5. December 6, 2001 DIE ZEIT article on contrail (in german).
6. May 27, 2002 US News & World Report article on contrails.
7. September 17, 2002 NY Times article on post-Septmber 11th contrail studies.

3. Satellite Contrail Imagery:

• September 11, 2001.

  1. AVHRR images, color, VIS, IR, showing contrails over Illinois that may be from the President's fighter-escorted flight from Offutt Air Force Base in Omaha back to Washington.
  2. Hi-res GOES VIS imagery at 21:45 and 22:45 showing contrails over midwestern USA.
  3. GOES-8 satellite imagery movie shows the aftermath of the terrorist attack on New York City World Trade Center on 11 September 2001. courtesy: Louis Nguyen LaRc,NASA

• September 12, 2001.

  1. GOES IR sequence of contrails over northeastern USA.
  2. MODIS VIS and IR images of contrails over northeastern USA.
  3. AVHRR IR 1-km image, at 11:08 UTC (NOAA-14) and 12:4 UTC (NOAA-15) over northeastern USA.
  4. Simulation of contrails on Septmber 12 for normal air traffic. (Quicktime format)