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https://www.straitstimes.com/singap...bulence-and-is-climate-change-making-it-worse
3. Is turbulence increasing due to climate change?
In a study published in 2023, Dr Paul Williams, a professor of atmospheric science at the University of Reading, said severe clear air turbulence over the North Atlantic Ocean has increased by more than 50 per cent during 1979 to 2020.
Dr Roth from NUS said
the increase in clear air turbulence had to do with climate change, which alters the jet stream.
Jet streams are the relatively narrow bands of strong winds that occur at higher altitudes. This is typically the height at which commercial aircraft cruise because the planes can fly more efficiently.
Prof Yim, who is also the principal investigator at NTU Earth Observatory of Singapore, said air temperature increases at different rates depending on the distance from the ground. This uneven warming leads to turbulence as the air moves at different speeds.
“The projections are that with climate change, clear air turbulence will increase by a factor of two or three,” he said.
Dr Winston Chow, professor of urban climate at the Singapore Management University, noted however that the 2023 study does not mention the situation in South-East Asia or the Andaman Sea, where SQ321 encountered the turbulence.
A 2021 study by the University of Arizona found that the position of the
North Atlantic jet stream could move out of its range of natural variability by as early as 2060 if the level of greenhouse gas emissions does not come down.
The study said that this will have “potentially drastic weather-related consequences for societies on both sides of the Atlantic”.
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