Sentences with phrase «by aircraft emissions»

8 In fact, a 2009 Stanford University study claims that clouds created by aircraft emissions triggered an overall rise in surface temperatures of 0.03 to 0.06 degree Celsius worldwide.

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Soon after the delay to the decision was announced by Hoon last Christmas, the Miliband and Benn camps both contacted the Institute for Public Policy Research, over a pamphlet by Simon Retallack, the IPPR's head of climate change, arguing that the third runway should not go ahead unless the government required aircraft using it to meet the aviation industry's own targets to cut carbon dioxide emissions and noise in new aircraft by 50 % and nitrogen oxides by 80 % by 2020.

The Committee on Aviation Environmental Protection of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) recently approved a preliminary standard governing the emission of particulates by aircraft engines.

A new report explores the feasibility of using ground monitoring stations, aircraft and satellites to measure CO2, as well as methods to estimate emissions by monitoring a country's energy infrastructure

According to the EPA, from 1990 to 2005 greenhouse emissions from military aircraft slid by 50 percent but those from commercial carriers rose by 16 percent, largely due to growth in the number of carriers.

Regulating aircraft emissions is part of the Obama administration's goal under the Paris Climate Agreement to reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by up to 28 percent below 2005 levels by 2025.

Aircraft emissions are expected to grow by 50 percent by 2050 as demand for air travel increases.

His company is preparing to launch two more satellites and is developing sensor packages that can be carried by aircraft, along with ground - based emissions sensors to monitor large industrial complexes.

By TARA PATEL Aerospace manufacturers are pressing ahead with their plans to develop the next generation of supersonic jetliners despite renewed uncertainty about the environmental impact of exhaust emissions that could ground the high - speed aircraft.

The authors estimate that if globe - warming emission continue unabated, fuel capacities and payload weights will have to be reduced by as much as 4 percent on the hottest days for some aircraft.

Aircraft emissions probably play a crucial role in ozone destruction by fuelling the formation of polar stratospheric clouds.

Industry expansion plans could see aircraft emissions increase three or fourfold by 2040, says Annie Petsonk of the Environmental Defense Fund in Washington DC.

Analyses of the ground and aircraft data performed by Setyan et al. (2012), Shilling et al. (2013), and Kleinman et al. (2016) showed that organic aerosol production increased when human - caused emissions from Sacramento mixed with air rich in isoprene, an organic compound wafting from many plants that originate in the area's foothills.

Performance Based Navigation (PBN) procedures save aircraft fuel and time, increase traffic flow, and result in fewer carbon emissions, by enabling more precise and efficient paths for aircraft to follow.

A zero emissions electric vehicle, its design is inspired by swept - wing aircraft.

The slimline economy class seat is made from carbon fibre, aluminium and genuine leather upholstery and is expected to help AirAsia reduce fuel consumption by more than 70,000 litres and lower CO2 emissions by 200 tonnes per aircraft per year.

Benefits of using the Boeing 787 family includes less fuel consumption as compared to similar aircraft, and reducing environmental impact and CO2 emission by 20 per cent.

«Our A320neo aircraft add value to our company by reducing fuel per seat mile costs by up to 20 per cent compared to its counterparts and benefitting the environment by offering quieter operations and reduced emissions, as well as enhancing our guest experience by providing a more comfortable journey.»

This is a well - established methodology, pushed to constrain US anthropogenic emissions by including measurements from aircraft and communications towers in addition to the ever - invaluable NOAA flask sample network, and incorporating socioeconomic and industrial data.

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Second, many other scientists have proven over the past 2 years that you can measure methane emissions from gas development without industry cooperation, for instance by using aircraft to fly over operations.

The move comes because the company has made big inroads into its original target by cutting aircraft emissions intensity by 13.8 % efficiency and improving vehicle fuel efficiency by 16.6 % up until the end of the 2011 financial year.

These inventories consist of calculated aircraft emissions distributed over the world's airspace by latitude, longitude, and altitude.

Aircraft operations can be optimized for energy use (with minimum CO2 emissions) by minimizing taxiing time, flying at optimal cruise altitudes, flying minimum - distance great - circle routes, and minimizing holding and stacking around airports.

We compare aircraft observations to modeled CH4 distributions by accounting for a) transport using the Stochastic Time - Inverted Lagrangian Transport (STILT) model driven by Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) meteorology, b) emissions from inventories such as EDGAR and ones constructed from California - specific state and county databases, each gridded to 0.1 ° x 0.1 ° resolution, and c) spatially and temporally evolving boundary conditions such as GEOS - Chem and a NOAA aircraft profile measurement derived curtain imposed at the edge of the WRF domain.

Most scientific studies track methane in one of two ways: either by measuring the gas in the atmosphere with instruments placed on tall towers or flown on aircraft, or by analyzing emissions directly at the source, such as at oil and gas wells.

In October 2017, ICAO released their Vision for the Future, which aims to reduce lifecycle emissions from aircraft by 33 % of 2020 levels by 2050.

Once the EPA has determined that aircraft emissions are a problem, it will be required to do something about it, by crafting and adopting emissions standards for aircraft.

Globally, aircraft - related emissions are projected to rise at an alarming rate: about 3 to 4 percent annually, meaning they could quadruple by midcentury.

This, despite the fact that the European Union is threatening to penalize US and other foreign aircraft if they emit CO2 in Europe's airspace, another harbinger of future pressure expected to be placed on the carbon - intensive US by the international community to reduce its per capita greenhouse gas emissions.

On the contrary, it appears that climate change is fully visible on the FAA radar screen, as evidenced by a variety of tactical maneuvers that any reasonable observer could interpret as intended to keep policymakers from focusing on aircraft emissions, even as the stakes against global ecological health and well - being continue to climb.

However, due to the international nature of the event, opportunities to reduce emissions in the planning stage are limited as many participants travel by aircraft to attend the event and this year's meeting in Nicosia was no exception.

California - based Virgin America (which is an entirely separate company than Virgin Atlantic, by the way...) has announced that it has become the first US airline to join The Climate Registry, committing to report all of its greenhouse gas emissions: Young Fleet Helps Lower Emissions Founded in 2007, Virgin Atlantic touts its fuel saving measures: It operates a very young fleet of aircraft (Airbus A320s) which on a fleet - wide basis means that Virgin America emits about 25 % fewer emissions than other domestic carriers on the routes emissions: Young Fleet Helps Lower Emissions Founded in 2007, Virgin Atlantic touts its fuel saving measures: It operates a very young fleet of aircraft (Airbus A320s) which on a fleet - wide basis means that Virgin America emits about 25 % fewer emissions than other domestic carriers on the routes Emissions Founded in 2007, Virgin Atlantic touts its fuel saving measures: It operates a very young fleet of aircraft (Airbus A320s) which on a fleet - wide basis means that Virgin America emits about 25 % fewer emissions than other domestic carriers on the routes emissions than other domestic carriers on the routes it flies.

Indeed, «even though 90 % of aircraft fuel is burned at cruise altitudes, only the pollutants that are emitted during takeoff and landing are regulated by measuring emissions during tests.»

In accordance with the Revised 1996 IPCC Guidelines, which are used by Parties to prepare their greenhouse gas inventories, emissions from fuel sold to ships or aircraft engaged in international transport (known as «bunker fuels») should not be included in national emission totals, but reported separately.

Aircraft wings which redirect air to waggle sideways over their surfaces could significantly reduce drag and thus cut fuel consumption and emissions by 20 %, according to researchers at the University of Warwick (UK).

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But that's not the only simple improvement that could cut fuel use - now a team from the University of Warwick in the UK claims that «waggling» air accross aircraft wings could cut skin friction drag by 40 %, offering a 20 % savings in fuel consumption and emissions.

# 2: Continental Airlines, Houston, TX — «Besides spending more than $ 16 billion over the past ten years to replace its fleet with more efficient aircraft, it installed fuel - saving winglets that reduce emissions by up to 5 % on most of its Boeing 737s and 757s, and reduced the nitrogen oxide output from ground equipment at its Houston hub by over 75 % since 2000.»

«Given the substantial lead time for the standards, along with anticipated fuel efficiency gains for new aircraft types already in development by manufacturers, the standards will serve primarily to prevent backsliding in emissions,» ICCT said in a statement.