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Workspace Storage Copy Data Management
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Created on Nov 15, 2026

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Contrail Observation Archive

PROBLEM: Contrails are observed by weather satellites, by ground cameras and by pilots — but the observations live in separate systems with different formats, retention rules and access controls. When a question arises about what was in the sky on a given day — as it did for Tyrone's Nov 10, 2026 photos of line clouds over Orlando — there is no single archive to check the flight, the altitude and the humidity that day. Evidence that cannot be found cannot be checked.

SOLUTION: A contrail observation archive: satellite detections, ground photographs and flight-track records stored together with their time, location and source, retained under one custody rule — so any day's sky can be reconstructed from the archive instead of argued about from memory.

EVIDENCE BASIS: DOCUMENTED — contrails are detected in satellite imagery (the 2025 trial measured observable contrails from geostationary satellite data); ground and satellite observations are the standard evidence base for contrail studies (Lee et al. 2021; Teoh et al. 2024).

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