Air Traffic and the Environment - Background, Tendencies and Potential Global Atmospheric Effects

Proceedings of a DLR International Colloquium, Bonn, Germany, November 15/16, 1990

180 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: Lecture Notes in Engineering
• Themen: Technologie, Ingenieurswissenschaft, Landwirtschaft, Industrieprozesse Verkehrstechnik und Transportwesen Fahrzeugbau
• ISBN: 9783540533528
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 02.11.1990
• Größe: 279 x 210 mm
• Verlag: Springer
• Herausgegeben von: Ulrich Schumann