Airborne pollution study is getting set for take off
The experiment to measure polluting emissions from Canadian wildfires is designed to help scientists improve air quality forecasts.
Researchers want to find out how emissions from such fires - sparked by dry, hot summer conditions - affect levels of atmospheric pollutants, such as ozone, which is linked with respiratory illnesses.
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Hide AdThe team, led by the University of Edinburgh, will spend three weeks taking daily flights in an atmospheric research aircraft along the eastern coast of Canada.
They will travel to Halifax in Nova Scotia tomorrow and the project is due to start on Sunday.
They hope to find out more about how the pollutants eventually disperse in the air to estimate how North American forest fires affect air pollution elsewhere in the world.