There is no denying how climate change is creating some major impacts on our lives. We are facing the consequences constantly every day and now it is even impacting turbulences during travelling on a plane. A recent study discusses how the turbulent experiences in the air have increased to a huge extent and gotten bumpier in the past years and climate change is a massive factor behind it.
Turbulences And Bumpier Flight Experiences Are Increasing!
A study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters was conducted recently by research scholars of the University of Reading in the United Kingdom. The study shows the effects of climate change on bumpier air travel experiences. The research reveals that clear-air turbulence saw a major rise in different places of the world. This clear-air turbulence gets unnoticed and also is dangerous to the planes passing through these areas.
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The researchers conducted a study on a point over the North Atlantic. The chosen point of research is regarded as one of the busiest air routes in the world, according to a report by Outlook India. The conclusion on this route is that the yearly duration of extreme turbulences has seen a rise in the last few years. The duration was about 17.7 hours in 1979 and it increased to 27.4 hours in 2020 by a whopping 55 per cent. Another important revelation of this study is that the number of turbulences has seen a spike presently and the experience is becoming way more turbulent than it was before 40 years.
More Revelations Of This Research:
- Light turbulences have seen a rise from 466.5 hours to 546.8 hours. It has increased by 17 per cent.
- The numbers have seen a change for moderate turbulences as well. It increased from 70 hours to 96.1 hours by 37 per cent.
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The CO2 emissions and its warm air is leaving such scary impacts on the air routes, causing more turbulences with bumpier flight experiences. The changes are most visible in North Atlantic and the US. Air routes of other global places that are facing these consequences are Europe, the Middle East, and the South Atlantic.
Everyone needs to be very cautious about such issues mid-air.
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