Air Traffic and the Environment - Background, Tendencies and Potential Global Atmospheric Effects: Proceedings of a DLR International Colloquium, Bonn, Germany, November 15/16, 1990

by Ulrich Schumann (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783540533528
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	12/03/1990
Series:	Lecture Notes in Engineering , #60
Pages:	170
Product dimensions:	8.27(w) x 10.98(h) x 0.01(d)

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.