The impacts of rising temperatures on aircraft takeoff performance

Climatic Change

Volumn 144, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 381-388

  Coffel, Ethan D ^a,b   Thompson, Terence R ^c   Horton, Radley M ^b,d  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

^c LMI   (United States)

^d NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TRANSPORTATION; AIRCRAFT; AIRCRAFT MANUFACTURE; AIRPORTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; TAKEOFF; WINGS;

AIR TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS; AVIATION OPERATIONS; COMMERCIAL AIRCRAFT; EMISSIONS SCENARIOS; EXTREME TEMPERATURES; MAXIMUM TAKEOFF WEIGHTS; MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE; RISING TEMPERATURES;

VEHICLE PERFORMANCE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; AIR TRANSPORTATION; AIRCRAFT; AIRPORT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CMIP; FUTURE PROSPECT; HIGH TEMPERATURE; MODEL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WEIGHT;

EID: 85023199552     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: 15731480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-017-2018-9     Document Type: Article

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