Brandon Gaines, ASCI 202

One dangerous weather condition most people have experienced is fog.  Fog is a low cloud created when the air near the ground is cooler than the dew point.   Fog can form for many reasons.  Some different types of fog are hail fog, mixing fog, freezing fog, advection fog, and radiation fog  (Ahrens & Henson, 2019) .  Hail fog forms due to the rapidly cooling temperatures after a hail storm.  Mixing fog can come in multiple forms, such as frontal fog (when rain is evaporated, cool air near the ground) or steam fog (cold air moves over warm water)  (National Weather Service, n.d.) .  Advection fog is caused by the movement of warm air over a cold surface, which is what causes fog over San Francisco  (Ahrens & Henson, 2019) .  Radiation fog is from the cooling of the earth overnight.   Fog can be deadly due to its ability to create a condition called spatial disorientation, which can be fatal.   Such was the c...

  As we were learning about the job of Air Traffic Control this week, it reminded me of a recent article from the beginning of the year where a German man was arrested for impersonating an ATC authority. If you have not seen that new story, you can read it here on the New York Post . This story helped me decide the geographical location I chose to focus on.    In Europe, before a flight is able to take off, a flight plan is filed with the Eurocontrol’s Network manager Operations Center, located in Brussels, Belgium, or Brétigny-Sur-Orge, France.   This is Europe’s intergovernmental air traffic management organization that represents 43 European countries.  The network management’s job is to make flights through and within Europe safely and smoothly as possible.   They check flight plans obey air traffic rules and regulations, verify planned path follows an approved airway.  No aircraft is able to take off unless Network Management Contro...