Transatlantic flight times and climate change

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Williams, Paul D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

aircraft; aviation; climate impacts; flight routes; jet stream; journey times

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; AVIATION; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE MODELS; FLIGHT SIMULATORS; GLOBAL WARMING;

ATMOSPHERIC CONCENTRATION; ATMOSPHERIC WINDS; CLIMATE IMPACTS; CLIMATE MODEL SIMULATIONS; FLIGHT ROUTE; JET STREAMS; JOURNEY TIME; TWO-WAY INTERACTION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AIR TRANSPORTATION; AIRCRAFT; ALGORITHM; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); GLOBAL WARMING; JET STREAM; TRAVEL TIME;

ENGLAND; LONDON [ENGLAND]; NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84959422556     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/11/2/024008     Document Type: Article

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