Aircraft Emissions and Climate Effects

The course introduces the students in the state-of-the-art capabilities, research issues and challenges in climate effects of aviation. Topics include:

- Combustion and emissions

- Overview of all environmental effects of aviation

- Air pollution relevant atmospheric chemistry and physics

- Local air pollution modelling

- Aviation environmental policy, new technologies, and other mitigation options

- General circulation of the atmosphere

- Atmospheric chemistry and contrail formation

- Climate change caused by air traffic emissions

- Modelling of climate impact from aviation

- Application and show cases for the assessment of mitigation options supporting decision making, e.g. for climate optimized trajectories