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A Eurowings Discover Airbus A330 was equipped with measuring instruments designed to collect data for global climate research. Three Lufthansa Group aircraft now have such equipment.
The converted long-haul aircraft of the Lufthansa Group's holiday airline with the registration D-AIKE, "Kilo-Echo", flies on scheduled services worldwide - with destinations in North America, the Caribbean, the Indian Ocean and Africa.
Lufthansa has been operating two long-haul aircraft equipped with the measurement system of the European research project IAGOS (In-service Aircraft for a Global Observing System) for more than seven years. Thanks to the now additional A330, the Lufthansa Group will in future collect climate data for science on additional flight routes around the world.
Under the leadership of Forschungszentrum Jülich, IAGOS bundles the expertise of partners from research, weather services, the aviation industry and airlines. IAGOS Germany is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research.
The compact system of the European research project is permanently installed below the aircraft cockpit. A short connection leads from there to two measuring probes installed in the aircraft fuselage. After each flight, the recorded measurement data is automatically transmitted to the central database of the CNRS research center (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) in Toulouse. They are freely and openly accessible for global research and are currently used by around 300 organizations worldwide. They help researchers to gain new insights into the development of the climate and the composition of the atmosphere and to determine long-term changes, to make climate models more precise and to improve weather forecasts.
