Mitigation of non-CO2 climate impact of civil aviation - Aerospace Engineering/Atmospheric Chemistry collaboration

Project Details

Description

This project connects strong foundations in Aerospace and Atmospheric Chemistry in order to develop tools and recommendations to reduce the impact of non-CO2 emissions from civil aviation on the climate.

Non-CO2 emissions include nitrous oxides and contrails, and can contribute up to two-thirds of the total long-term climate impact.

Operational mitigations such as climate-optimal routing and formation flight can be implemented in a nearer-term timeframe than is required for widespread introduction of Sustainable Aviation Fuels and Hydrogen propulsion.
StatusFinished
Effective start/end date1/10/201/04/24

Research Groups and Themes

  • Cabot Institute Environmental Change Research
  • climate
  • civil aviation
  • non-CO2
  • atmospheric chemistry
  • nitrous oxides
  • formation flight
  • contrails
  • climate-optimal routing
  • Cabot Institute Low Carbon Energy Research

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