Editing Openai/680a25f8-9f18-8004-a42d-cd36374ba000 (section)

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In the original calculation, sublimation-driven latent cooling was initially neglected. Incorporating this effect shows that the particle’s equilibrium temperature after solar and longwave absorption stabilizes slightly lower (around 236–240 K, rather than 243 K), due to energy loss during sublimation. This reduces the vapor pressure accordingly (from ~15 Pa to ~8–10 Pa) and increases the individual particle sublimation timescale from ~1 second to approximately 3–8 seconds, depending on final temperature and ambient RHi. However, the core conclusion remains unchanged: unless ambient RHi exceeds ~230–260% (still far above typical atmospheric values of 140–160%), sunlit 20 µm ice crystals sublimate rapidly, making long-lived contrail persistence under direct sunlight physically implausible without extraordinary conditions.

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