AvioMEET inventory tool and its applications

Authors: Bukovnik, Monika; Kalivoda, Manfred T.

Source: Meteorologische Zeitschrift, Volume 14, Number 4, August 2005 , pp. 453-458(6)

Publisher: E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung

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Abstract:

Increasing numbers of flights and still unknown effects of exhaust gasses on the high atmosphere have drawn much attention to air traffic and its emissions. That led to some work done in parallel while using different databases and methodologies which often lead to results that cannot be compared or matched. The COST 319 working group D2 - air traffic - has proposed minimum requirements for an harmonised approach to generate emission indices. This seems to be the only way to make results from different inventories comparable and exchangeable. Harmonisation work is going on under the umbrella of the Thematic Network AERONET. The Methodology used in the MEET project and presented here is based on a flexible design that allows adjusting it to the user requirements as well as to air traffic data and emission factors (easily) available. Based on the MEET methodology an MS-Access computer tool was created, called AvioMEET, which uses most of the Emission Indices published in the Emission Index Sheets of MEET/Deliverable 18. TRENDS finally uses all this more or less theoretical knowledge to apply it to existing traffic activity data to come up with a database of environmental indications for air transport.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1127/0941-2948/2005/0057

Publication date: 2005-08-01

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