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Meteorology and Environment in Aviation

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Hot in the city

Whereas Billy Idol enjoyed the hot summer nights in New York City, many urban dwellers nowadays wish for colder urban environments. We at ZAV investigate the urban climate and potential measures to mitigate the increasingly high temperatures within the urban heat island. Zurich’s dense urban measurement network provides an ideal dataset for comparison with and … Read more

29.06.2023 dros
Kategorie: Meetings, Meteorology and Climate
Adoption of the net-zero emissions goal by the 41st ICAO Assembly on 7 October 2022 (Photo credit: ICAO)

ICAO adopts net-zero carbon emissions goal for international aviation

Written by: Thomas Rötger On 7 October 2022, at the end of 2 weeks of negotiations during the 41st ICAO Assembly, the 193 ICAO Member States took the historic decision to adopt a collective long-term global aspirational goal (LTAG) of net-zero carbon emissions of international aviation by 2050. This resolution was based upon a report on the … Read more

02.11.2022 J. Edebeli
Kategorie: Aviation and Air Quality, Meetings

Conference Report: 5th International Conference on Transport, Atmosphere, Climate – TAC-5

A long-awaited return The previous installment of the TAC conferences, TAC-4, was the best conference I attended during my PhD back in 2015. A perfect combination of topics and social activities in a small Bavarian town away from touristy temptations. Naturally, TAC-5 had been on my radar, and it was initially supposed to follow the … Read more

17.08.2022 Lukas Durdina
Kategorie: Meetings

Boosting Power-to-X in Switzerland

Climate change will only be successfully tackled if a drastic reduction in emitted greenhouse gases can be fulfilled. This goal can best be reached by both decarbonizing all energy sectors and reducing the energy demand of our society. To this end, Switzerland aims at rapidly expanding the capacity of green energy production, with a strong … Read more

27.06.2022 Julien Anet
Kategorie: Meetings

SAE E31 comes to ZHAW – success

Updates to SAE E31 in Winterthur – 27.06.2022 ZAV successfully hosted this year’s SAE E31 committee’s summer meeting from June 20 – 24 in Winterthur, Switzerland. This meeting was the first one taking place in person since January 2020. As usual, the meeting primarily focused on discussing the progress and plans for various standardized methods … Read more

27.06.2022 J. Edebeli
Kategorie: Meetings

SGM Symposium : “Measuring weather”

Our group had the pleasure to host this years Symposium of the Swiss Society for Meteorology (SGM). Within four sessions, the participants could listen to 11 highly interesting contributions from emeriti, scientists, engineers, meteorologists, and entrepreneurs within the field of historic to modern measurements, and from established to new remote and in-situ measurement techniques. Dr. … Read more

02.05.2022 Julien Anet
Kategorie: Meetings, Meteorology and Climate

Virtual plenary meeting of the International Civil Aviation Organisation’s Environment Committee

Written by: Thomas Rötger Every three years in February, the UN International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) holds the plenary meeting of its Committee for Aviation Environmental Protection (CAEP). Normally, this meeting gathers about 200 aviation experts representing the States and international organisations at the ICAO Headquarters for two weeks in snowy Montréal. Not surprisingly, the … Read more

28.02.2022 J. Edebeli
Kategorie: Aviation and Air Quality, Meetings

SAE E-31 Committee Meeting in Cardiff

On January 13-17, 2020, Julien and I attended the meeting of the SAE E-31 Committee, which took place in the historic Glamorgan Building of Cardiff University (little did I know that it would be the only face-to-face meeting the committee would have this year…). As usual, the first day of the meeting was devoted to … Read more

21.01.2020 Lukas Durdina
Kategorie: Aviation and Air Quality, Meetings

AGU Fall Meeting, 2019

If you are going to San Francisco … …make sure your poster tube fits in the overhead bin. On December 7, 2019, I was boarding a flight to San Francisco to attend the AGU Fall Meeting (American Geophysical Union). And judging by the frequent occurrence of poster tubes sticking up in the line of passengers … Read more

06.01.2020 Lukas Durdina
Kategorie: Aviation and Air Quality, Meetings

Kickoff meeting of the project RAPTOR in Paris

On November 18, 2019, I attended the kickoff meeting of the project RAPTOR (Research of Aviation PM Technologies, Modeling and Regulation) organized by the coordinator ENVISA in Paris. RAPTOR is a part of the European research program Clean Sky funded by the EU’s Horizon 2020 program. The project brings together experts from academia and industry … Read more

25.11.2019 Lukas Durdina
Kategorie: Aviation and Air Quality, Meetings
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