There is increased interest to understand and mitigate the impacts of air traffic on the climate, since greenhouse gases, nitrogen oxides, and contrails generated by air traffic can have adverse impacts on the climate. The models described in this presentation are useful for quantifying these impacts and for studying alternative environmentally aware operational concepts. These models have been developed by leveraging and building upon existing simulation and optimization techniques developed for the design of efficient traffic flow management strategies. Specific enhancements to the existing simulation and optimization techniques include new models that simulate aircraft fuel flow, emissions and contrails. To ensure that these new models are beneficial to the larger climate research community, the outputs of these new models are compatible with existing global climate modeling tools like the FAA's Aviation Environmental Design Tool.


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    Title :

    Modeling the Environmental Impact of Air Traffic Operations


    Contributors:
    Chen, Neil (author)

    Conference:

    2011 NASA Airspace Systems Program Technical Interchange Meeting ; 2011 ; San Diego, CA, United States


    Publication date :

    2011-03-28


    Type of media :

    Miscellaneous


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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