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BBC Documentaries - The Jet Stream and Us

Seizoen: 2008 - Aflevering: 25 / 796 - Eerst uitgezonden: 17 februari 2008 - Episode ID: 382589

Documentary tracing how human understanding of the jet stream - a ribbon of fast moving air high in the atmosphere - has grown. It has been responsible for bewildering effect on bomber pilots in World War II, turbocharging modern transatlantic flyers, the infamous 1987 hurricane and the devastating floods of recent years. Scientists now believe this powerful weather phenomenon is now changing its pattern of behaviour and could have an even bigger impact on our climate and the way we live our lives.