Air NZ and NASA to build a flying climate monitor
Air NZ will turn one of its domestic aircraft into a flying environmental monitor as part of a world-first project with NASA to collect data used to predict severe weather events and to inform climate change research. The carrier will install satellite receivers on one of its Bombardier Q300 turbo-prop aircraft, which will then collect environmental data for NASA's Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System as it flies between 19 different airports around the country. The NASA program consists of 8 small satellites measuring wind speeds around the globe by tracing GPS and other signals reflected from the ocean and uses that to predict cyclones and hurricanes. Air NZ's low-altitude monitoring means the program could also track indicators of climate change such as drought, flooding and coastline erosion. <br/>
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Air NZ and NASA to build a flying climate monitor
Air NZ will turn one of its domestic aircraft into a flying environmental monitor as part of a world-first project with NASA to collect data used to predict severe weather events and to inform climate change research. The carrier will install satellite receivers on one of its Bombardier Q300 turbo-prop aircraft, which will then collect environmental data for NASA's Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System as it flies between 19 different airports around the country. The NASA program consists of 8 small satellites measuring wind speeds around the globe by tracing GPS and other signals reflected from the ocean and uses that to predict cyclones and hurricanes. Air NZ's low-altitude monitoring means the program could also track indicators of climate change such as drought, flooding and coastline erosion. <br/>
