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Title China Airlines trans-Pacific climate observation flight Media name/outlet China Airlines Charity CO Education Country/Territory United Kingdom Date 1/07/16 Description Since 2007, in support of the “Pacific Greenhouse Gases Measurement Project” (PGGM) jointly run by Taiwan’s Environmental Protection Administration (EPA), the National Science Council and the National Central University, China Airlines Airbus 340-300 aircraft with the identity number B-18806 has been installed with the IAGOS (In-service Aircraft for a Global Observing System) Instrument. China Airlines is therefore the first airline company in Asia participating in the PGGM project to monitor greenhouse gases and the first to operate an IAGOS-equipped flight for taking atmospheric measurements on trans-Pacific routes. Hence helping scientists to reveal the mystery of the climate change. Pink area as shown in Figure 2 are those areas where China Airlines is responsible for collecting the data (covering Pacific and Euro-Asia region), and Figure 3 is animation illustrating the flight routes.
The IAGOS instrument is installed in the avionic compartment underneath the control cabin on CAL A340-300 passenger plane (as shown in Fig.4). A sampling port extending from the fuselage collects data on atmospheric gases, water vapor, ozone, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, and nitrogen oxide during each flight. The collected data, after aircraft’s landing, is automatically transmitted by Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM) to the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) for data analysis. The data is then provided for the National Central University and the global scientific community in their research on global warming, air pollution and climate change. In addition, PGGM had incorporated FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC (Taiwan), GEM,IAGOS-ERI (Europe), A-Train,OCO (USA), GOSAT and CONTRAIL(Japan) to provide atmospheric climate change real-time data. Hence, support academic research and extended the global climate change simulation modelling.Producer/Author China Airlines URL https://calec.china-airlines.com/csr/environment/en/charity-plan-1.html Persons Martin Gallagher