Source: The New York Times (Written by Leo Sands)
British air traffic controllers and researchers have launched a large-scale experiment across North Atlantic air corridors to curb the global warming caused by heat-trapping contrails left behind by airplanes.
According to an article published in The New York Times, pilots of around 10,000 transatlantic flights will be asked over the next two winters to slightly adjust their flight altitudes. Relying on weather data and artificial intelligence analysis by Google, experts will identify the humid atmospheric layers where these artificial clouds are most likely to form.
Since research shows that contrails account for up to 35 percent of aviation’s climate-warming impact, experts estimate that targeted route adjustments like this could reduce the phenomenon by up to 70 percent in the future.
Source: The New York Times (Written by Leo Sands)
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