Ship tracks

Ship tracks are clouds that form around the exhaust released by ships into the still ocean air.^[1] Water molecules collect around the tiny particles (aerosols) from exhaust to form a cloud seed. More and more water accumulates on the seed until a visible cloud is formed. In the case of ship tracks, the cloud seeds are stretched over a long narrow path where the wind has blown the ship's exhaust, so the resulting clouds resemble long strings over the ocean.^[2] Ship tracks are a type of homogenitus cloud.^[3]

^ "Ship Tracks over the Atlantic". earthobservatory.nasa.gov. 2005-05-12. Retrieved 2018-09-11.
^ "Ship Tracks over the Atlantic". NASA Earth Observatory. Archived from the original on 2005-05-26. Retrieved 2006-05-11. Not available as NASA no longer supports Earth Observatory press releases (accession attempt 2017-09-21
^ Sutherland, Scott (March 23, 2017). "Cloud Atlas leaps into 21st century with 12 new cloud types". The Weather Network. Pelmorex Media. Retrieved 24 March 2017.

[1] "Ship Tracks over the Atlantic". earthobservatory.nasa.gov. 2005-05-12. Retrieved 2018-09-11.

[2] "Ship Tracks over the Atlantic". NASA Earth Observatory. Archived from the original on 2005-05-26. Retrieved 2006-05-11. Not available as NASA no longer supports Earth Observatory press releases (accession attempt 2017-09-21

[ICA2017-3] Sutherland, Scott (March 23, 2017). "Cloud Atlas leaps into 21st century with 12 new cloud types". The Weather Network. Pelmorex Media. Retrieved 24 March 2017.

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