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Meteorology and Environment in Aviation

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23.11.2021 Julien Anet

Low-power method for accurate environmental temperature measurements

Guest post by our two former Bachelor students Simon Moser and Lucas Spring  To better understand the urban heat island effect (UHIE) and to be able to plan urban heat mitigation measures in a more targeted way, high-resolution models of the temperature distribution in cities are needed. An important component to develop and validate such […]

Developing mobile RHT-Sensors for urban heat island detection using public rental bikes

Guest post of our two Bachelor students Soneesh Gill and Manuel Walter The study of urban heat islands becomes more and more important, especially when considering the ongoing climate change. To keep urban regions habitable in the future, city planning measures must be taken. To achieve their greatest benefit, measures such as the greening of […]

16.03.2021 Julien Anet
Kategorie: Meteorology & Climate

Paper published: First reported nonvolatile particulate matter emissions of a business jet aircraft measured according to a new international emissions standard

Particle emissions of small turbine engines are unknown and unregulated Jet engines for commercial airliners in production now and in the future are certified for particle emissions from a virtual landing and take-off cycle. However, one potentially large group of engines is left out. Small jet engines (<26.7 kN rated thrust), found on business jets, […]

03.11.2020 Lukas Durdina
Kategorie: News

Paper published: First reported nonvolatile particulate matter emissions of a business jet aircraft measured according to a new international emissions standard

Particle emissions of small turbine engines are unknown and unregulated Jet engines for commercial airliners in production now and in the future are certified for particle emissions from a virtual landing and take-off cycle. However, one potentially large group of engines is left out. Small jet engines (<26.7 kN rated thrust), found on business jets, […]

03.11.2020 Lukas Durdina
Kategorie: News

Simulating Urban Climate in Zürich West

As you saw in the last blogpost, our group is maintaining a high resolution temperature and humidity monitoring network in the city of Zurich. Some of the stations are also located in the district of Zurich West, which is located just north of the railroad tracks running towards the main station. Zurich West is quite […]

16.10.2020 Stefan Fluck
Kategorie: Meteorology & Climate

High resolution T & RH measurement network for Zurich

Even if COVID-19 has currently pushed global warming out of the media and thus partly out of our minds, this does not mean that it is no longer a threat. Especially now, with the beginning of the warmest months of the year in the northern hemisphere, many people will be experiencing an ungentle reminder of […]

02.06.2020 spiu
Kategorie: Meteorology & Climate

Deployment of a new LDSA-sensor network

For a few months now, our group and our students have been doing field measurements using Partector 2, a portable particulate matter (PM) sensor from naneos particle solutions gmbh. This very nice portable device utilizing induced currents (Fierz et al, 2014) measures the lung-deposited surface area (LDSA, see e.g. the paper of Sager & Castranova, […]

04.05.2020 Julien Anet
Kategorie: Meteorology & Climate

Deployment of a new LDSA-sensor network

For a few months now, our group and our students have been doing field measurements using Partector 2, a portable particulate matter (PM) sensor from naneos particle solutions gmbh. This very nice portable device utilizing induced currents (Fierz et al, 2014) measures the lung-deposited surface area (LDSA, see e.g. the paper of Sager & Castranova, […]

04.05.2020 Julien Anet
Kategorie: Meteorology & Climate

COVID-19: A unique air quality study?

Of course, COVID-19 also affected us, leading to working from home, interruption of routine aircraft turbine emission measurements at SR Technics, or to additional workload linked to remote teaching activities. On a positive note, COVID-19 offered the unique situation of drastic reductions in road as well as air traffic. At Zurich airport, there were days […]

20.04.2020 Julien Anet
Kategorie: Emissions & Air Quality, Meteorology & Climate

PALM-Seminar 2020 in Hannover

A Visit to the Urban Climate Simulation Capital I had the pleasure of attending the PALM-Seminar 2020, probably the one which has attracted the largest number of attendees so far. Find out in the following article how it went. In the beginning of February, I was given the opportunity to attend the PALM-Seminar at the […]

15.02.2020 Stefan Fluck
Kategorie: Meteorology & Climate

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 […]

21.01.2020 Lukas Durdina
Kategorie: Emissions & Air Quality, News

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 […]

21.01.2020 Lukas Durdina
Kategorie: Emissions & Air QualityNews

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 […]

06.01.2020 Lukas Durdina
Kategorie: Emissions & Air Quality, News

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