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Letter of introduction:
“ Dear Sir,
We are currently working on a project called AERO2K. It consists of building a global inventory of aviation and fuel consumption that shall be used for research purposes by climate scientists. You can find enclosed a project overview. Our task at Eurocontrol involves the compilation of civil aircraft movements for the world, based on 2002 traffic.
We are getting in touch with worldwide air traffic authorities as we are looking for information on airport traffic, aircraft movements and flight route trajectories. The data required for our project are listed at the end of the overview.
Can you please let us know if you detain the type of information we are looking for and if you could provide us with it?
Should you need any further help or clarification please do not hesitate to contact us.
Kind Regards, “
AERO2K overview:
INTRODUCTION
This European Commission Fifth Framework Programme project will develop a new global inventory of emissions and fuel usage from aviation for the year 2002 and a forecast for the year 2025. Such an emission database is an essential tool for both policy makers and scientists, and this inventory will supply data that are not currently available. The recent context for this work is the report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, 1999)—‘Aviation and the Global Atmosphere’. This report assessed the current and projected impacts of aviation on the atmosphere in the context of climate change. Currently, aviation is not regulated in terms of emissions except those from the landing/take-off cycle. The Kyoto Protocol sets the international scene for limiting certain greenhouse gases—principally carbon dioxide—but does not currently cover international aviation. The Protocol does, however, make provision for later incorporation. As a result of the IPCC report, the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) has now been given a mandate to scope how aviation might be brought within any subsequent amendments to the Kyoto Protocol. Amendments to the Protocol will be carried out under the aegis of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The potential future incorporation of international civil aviation within the Kyoto Protocol thus forms the backdrop to current activities on policy, regulatory and scientific issues related to aviation. Essential in this process is the quantification of emissions. The regulatory and policy communities can only understand emissions when they are quantified and allocated to their originator(s). The potential impacts of aviation on the global atmosphere (global warming, or radiative forcing) can only be assessed by use of models of the atmosphere, which require gridded emissions data. Thus, the database that will be generated from this work here is essential for policy and regulatory purposes and in assessment modelling, without which, climate change impacts can neither be properly understood, nor quantified.
PARTNERSHIP
The partnership of this project brings together representation from policy-makers, industry, technology, aeronautics, air traffic management and climate science. Three major aerospace research establishments are involved (DERA -now QinetiQ-, DLR, NLR), one government department (DTI), an air traffic control agency (EUROCONTROL), a University (MMU) and a major European airframe company (AM-Airbus). 中国航空网 www.aero.cn 航空翻译 www.aviation.cn 本文链接地址：AERO2K Flight Movement Inventory Project Report(86)
