Print Email Facebook Twitter Analysis of Contrail Formation Regions and Changes due to Climate Impact Title Analysis of Contrail Formation Regions and Changes due to Climate Impact Author Xu, Jinghua (TU Delft Aerospace Engineering; TU Delft Control & Operations; TU Delft Aircraft Noise and Climate Effects) Contributor Grewe, V. (mentor) Snellen, M. (graduation committee) Roling, P.C. (graduation committee) Degree granting institution Delft University of Technology Programme Aerospace Engineering Date 2018-10-30 Abstract As global warming has become a prominent issue for mankind, scientists are working on every possible aspects to slow down its pace. Aviation emission contributes more and more to the anthropogenic climate impact. Contrails contribute to about 30% of the aviation induced RF. Among the options that are proposed to mitigate the formation of contrails, one of it is to reroute the aircraft in a way to avoid flying through the contrail formation regions (CFRs). To carry out this option, it is necessary to have a better understanding of the distribution of the CFRs as well as their seasonal variation and future trend. The CFRs analyzed in this thesis are simulated by EMAC model, the CFRs' characterisations studied include their zonal and meridional coverage length, stretch factor, direction in the vertical and horizontal planes as well as their seasonal variations and future trend. Subject contrail formation regionsEMACseasonal variation To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:a6903b37-68c0-4bc9-a8f4-26e2ec7142a1 Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights © 2018 Jinghua Xu Files PDF Master_Thesis_Jinghua_Xu.pdf 20.13 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:a6903b37-68c0-4bc9-a8f4-26e2ec7142a1/datastream/OBJ/view