An operational strategy for persistent contrail mitigation

9th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration and Operations (ATIO) Conference, Aircraft Noise and Emissions Reduction Symposium (ANERS)

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Campbell, Scot E ^a   Neogi, Natasha A ^a   Bragg, Michael B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT TRAJECTORY; CONTRAIL FORMATION; GLOBAL CLIMATES; MIXED-INTEGER LINEAR PROGRAMMING; OPERATIONAL STRATEGIES; PATH-PLANNING ALGORITHM; POTENTIAL THREATS;

AVIATION; EMISSION CONTROL; FLIGHT PATHS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; NOISE POLLUTION; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS;

AIRCRAFT;

EID: 78249280613     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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