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.

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: SpringerLink (Online service), Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Luft- und Raumfahrt
Other Authors: Schumann, U.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; New York : Springer-Verlag, [1990]
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.