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

Written exam

(Resits may be oral, depending on the situation)

Assignments

Both the written exam and the assignments need to be passed with a 6.0 or higher.