A group of space physicists from Kolkata has raised alarm over heightened solar activities in the last few months and have warned that solar flares could have a significant impact on frequent fliers. The Kolkata based Indian Centre for Space Physics (ICSP), a government‐aided autonomous institute, which partners with the Indian Space Research organisation, the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research and the US space organisation, NASA, has intimated the director‐general of civil aviation (DGCA) in New Delhi on June 29, 2013, asking the Central government body to take a note of it. In a letter addressed to DGCA Mr Arun Mishra, ICSP secretary and in‐‐charge of academic affairs, Mr Sandip Kumar Chakrabarti, pointed out that while the cycle of solar activities take place every 11 years, this year activities have been heightened since April. Radiation from solar flares has reached up to 12 to 14 km into the earth’s atmosphere, a phenomenon that has not been recorded earlier.
Source: Deccan Herald
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