Icelandic Volcanic Eruption - Significant Disruption to UK Flights

[knowledge123]

There was some quite interesting reports post 9/11 about how the reduced Air Travel for those few days in 2001 did have some kind of measurable affect on the environment. Will dig out links when I get home!

A bad affect if i remember correctly.

3. Airplanes' contrails may also play a role in climate change. Contrails are high-altitude vapor trails. They form when water vapor in the atmosphere condenses and freezes around tiny, cooled particles of engine exhaust.

The three-day grounding of all American air traffic after September 11, 2001 created a natural experiment for studying contrails' effects. Researchers discovered that the absence of contrails expanded the difference between daytime and nighttime temperatures by a full degree Celsius, compared with the average of the last three decades. The difference was even greater in Cascadia and other heavy-air-traffic, mid-latitude regions (see endnote 5). Apparently, contrails dampen natural temperature variations.

Source: http://www.sightline.org/research/energy/res_pubs/rel_air_travel_aug04

Mega PDF original source document

 

[Amp34]

There was some quite interesting reports post 9/11 about how the reduced Air Travel for those few days in 2001 did have some kind of measurable affect on the environment. Will dig out links when I get home!

Something along the lines of slightly cooler and air quality increasing massively. An almost wholely positive effect unfortunately (ie it shows how much of an effect air travel has on the atmosphere).

 

[Scuzi]

Well, that was a quiet night shift! The Ops Room at NATS Prestwick Centre was pretty much deserted last night! Was a bit spooky.

Isn't it like that every day anyway??!

 

[Iraklis F.C.]

but isnt it different to 9/11 ? , we have natural forming clouds due to the eruption. Sulfur particles reflect a great deal of sunlight too

 

[matt_fsr]

They (science people) are sending a plane up to assess the situation. According to a professor ...

I bet he's using a Turboprop plane

 

[Andr3w]

I bet he's using a Turboprop plane

Hehe it's just taking off now. You can watch it on sky news.

There is talk of over reacting and all sorts. We will just have to wait and see what the samples say

Heres hoping!

 

[Charlie Bravo]

I bet he's using a Turboprop plane

Indeed... a Dornier 228.

 

[antijoke]

I was actually thinking to myself last night if this indeed has been a massive over reaction on the behalf of the aviation industry and not wanting to open itself up to all sorts of claims from family IF the worst did happen.

 

[Trick]

Isn't it like that every day anyway??!

you don't get paid more for working hard!

 

[matt_fsr]

According to what I've heard on the news, if a jet plane flies through a cloud of this ash/gas in the atmosphere, you basically have to junk the engines.

At £15 million each.

 

[lookitsjonno]

i think the whole thing is a farce which has been blown well and truely out of proportion. alright, if the volcano was in Scotland with plumes of smoke all over the UK. but we are talking about a volcano 1500 miles a way which most of the ash will have dispersed into the atmosphere anyway. looking out of my window now I can't see a cloud in the sky

 

[antijoke]

i think the whole thing is a farce which has been blown well and truely out of proportion. alright, if the volcano was in Scotland with plumes of smoke all over the UK. but we are talking about a volcano 1500 miles a way which most of the ash will have dispersed into the atmosphere anyway. looking out of my window now I can't see a cloud in the sky

>.<

 

[Antar Bolaeisk]

i think the whole thing is a farce which has been blown well and truely out of proportion. alright, if the volcano was in Scotland with plumes of smoke all over the UK. but we are talking about a volcano 1500 miles a way which most of the ash will have dispersed into the atmosphere anyway. looking out of my window now I can't see a cloud in the sky

Yeah, they really made a mountain out of a mole-hill with this one...



...or a volcano as it were


Do you want to run the risk of taking a flight and the engines clogging up mid-way?

 

[lookitsjonno]

Yeah, they really made a mountain out of a mole-hill with this one...



...or a volcano as it were


Do you want to run the risk of taking a flight and the engines clogging up mid-way?

i 100% guarantee tomorrow all of the boffins will let flights resume and we will hear nothing more about the volcano dispite it continuing to erupt.

 

[Indie]

i think the whole thing is a farce which has been blown well and truely out of proportion. alright, if the volcano was in Scotland with plumes of smoke all over the UK. but we are talking about a volcano 1500 miles a way which most of the ash will have dispersed into the atmosphere anyway. looking out of my window now I can't see a cloud in the sky

looks like thats /thread guys n girls

-.-

 

[Cosimo]

i 100% guarantee tomorrow all of the boffins will let flights resume and we will hear nothing more about the volcano dispite it continuing to erupt.

Can we have that in writing?

 

[VFR_KID]

i 100% guarantee tomorrow all of the boffins will let flights resume and we will hear nothing more about the volcano dispite it continuing to erupt.

Im beginning to think the same.

Well not 100% guarantee but think it will go rather sharply.

 

[Le_Petit_Lapin]

Ash cloud or not, it's bloody roasting outside, hottest day this year so far.

Its great, summer dresses everywhere. My necks going to get a strain from all the oogling I'm doing.

 

[lookitsjonno]

our modern society loves to take the smallest thing to epic proportions. the flights in the 1980's flew through thick plumes of the stuff.

 

[Jokester]

Well, that's my flight cancelled.