Air traffic and the environment : background, tendencies, and potential global atmospheric effects : proceedings of a DLR international colloquium, Bonn, Germany, November 15/16 1990 /
This volume contains ten papers on air traffic and the environment prepared by invited experts for a seminar organized by the German Aerospace Research Establishment (DLR) on November 15 and 16, 1990 in Bonn, Germany.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin ; New York :
Springer-Verlag,
[1990]
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| Series: | Lecture notes in engineering ;
60. |
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Table of Contents:
- The global distribution of air traffic at high altitudes, related fuel consumption and trends
- Fuel consumption and emissions of air traffic
- Hydrogen technologies for future aircraft
- Pollutant emissions of existing and future engines for commercial aircrafts
- Constituents and transport properties of the atmosphere above and below the tropopause
- The atmospheric chemical effects of aircraft operations
- Sensitivity of stratospheric ozone to present and possible future aircraft emissions
- Possible climatic effects of contrails and additional water vapour
- Determination of contrails from satellite data and observational results
- An investigation of the climatic effect of contrail cirrus
- Index of Contributors.