Development of a comprehensive methodology for estimating air pollutant emissions from air traffic within the MEET project

摘要

Contribution from air traffic to the world's energy consumption and the total antropogenic exhaust emissions is rather small. However, the effects of components emitted on the hgihly sensitive region of atmosphere and on the world's climate are still unknown. International studies on the middle- and long-term development in traffic demand and engine technology predict a growth in world-wide air traffic greater than the progress in engine technology. This will double both aviation fuel use and exhaust emission till 2015.