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Because the air temperature there is below freezing, cirrus clouds are made up of ice crystals instead of liquid water droplets. The new data could be used to improve models of cirrus cloud formation, the researchers say. Although contrails look harmless, they may actually affect the climate as they spread into high, thin cirrus clouds after they were formed. |
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