Metric for comparing lifetime average climate impact of aircraft

AIAA Journal

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1600-1613

  Dallara, Emily Schwartz ^a   Kroo, Ilan M ^a   Waitz, Ian A ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT CONFIGURATIONS; AIRCRAFT DESIGN; ALTITUDE VARIATION; AVERAGE TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE IMPACTS; GLOBAL-MEAN TEMPERATURE; LOWER AVERAGE; MINIMUM-COST DESIGN; RELATIVE PERFORMANCE; UNCERTAINTY QUANTIFICATIONS;

AIRCRAFT; CIVIL AVIATION; CLIMATE MODELS; DESIGN; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; OPERATING COSTS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 79961086833     PISSN: 00011452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.J050763     Document Type: Article

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