Aviation climate effects of non-CO2 emissions depend on location and time of emission. In order to mitigate aviation’s climate effect, the mitigation strategy of climate-optimized trajectories aims to avoid flying through those regions of the atmosphere which are particularly sensitive to aviation emissions (e.g. regions where persistent contrails […]
What if we tell passengers that we might have found the solutions which will allow them to partially reduce the aviation greenhouse gases emissions, but that these new measures might have an impact also on their flight experience? Would they tolerate them […]
The primary purpose of the ClimOP is to develop mitigation strategies for sustainable aviation. Several operational improvements are proposed to reduce the climate impact of aviation. Some of these improvements also have a direct impact on the flight schedules. When assessing the climate impact of these improvements, it […]
On September the 2nd, 2021, ClimOP took part in the 11th EASN Conference to give two presentations on the activities carried out during last year. The first presentation described the current status and achievements of the ClimOP project for the first 20 months of activities. […]
Aviation is part of a strong European and global economy, with the aeroplane providing a fast and convenient mode of transport. The number of passengers transported by aircraft has more than doubled between 2005 and 2019 and, after recovery from COVID, has a prospect of growth by a […]
The aviation sector is often seen as a major source of environmental issues such as air pollution, noise pollution, and climate change. In 2005 the share of aviation-related climate change including non-CO2 emission was estimated at 5% of the total impact on greenhouse gases. Since that, the aviation […]
At the beginning of June, ClimOp took part in the 10th Annual EMAC Symposium, where our colleagues from TU Delft presented their work on the analysis of NOx-O3 effects from optimised air traffic using algorithmic climate change functions (aCCFs). The EMAC Symposium is an annual […]
In the next decades, various sectors will play a major role in accelerating climate change. With this article we dug deeper into aviation operations and their effect on global warming, starting from the question: “What is aviation’s impact on the climate, and can something effectively be done about […]
Speaking of airports, the environmental performances of apron operations are as important as the energy performance of the entire airport system. This is because the path to reduce emissions impacts many aspects of airport management, not least those related to the heating and cooling of the airport’s environments, […]
This week ClimOp has been presented in the 4th InterFAB Expert Talk held on Tuesday 11 May. The presentation on “Climate change and the role of ATM” was held by Dr Sigrun Matthes from the German Aerospace Center (DLR), a member of the ClimOp Consortium. During her speech, Dr Matthes […]