Flight Tests to Probe Aircraft Contrails’ Effect on Climate

A partnership between GE Aerospace and NASA is scheduled to start a series of flight tests on Monday to research new technologies for reducing non-carbon dioxide emissions that contribute to climate change. The tests will study how weather is affected by the contrail clouds of ice particles that airplanes emit and ways to reduce them, GE Aerospace said Friday. Dubbed as the Contrail Optical Depth Experiment, the tests will involve the NASA Langley Research Center’s G-III aircraft trailing GE Aerospace’s 747 flying test bed in flight and using light detection and ranging, or LiDAR, technology to scan the aircraft’s contrails.The post Flight Tests to Probe Aircraft Contrails’ Effect on Climate first appeared on Executive Gov.