Flight Movement Inventory: SAGE-AERO2K

摘要

A global air traffic emissions database is an essential tool for both policy makers and climate change scientists. Since the last comprehensive aircraft emissions inventories were developed in 1996 and 1998 for the year 1992, an update is necessary. This need is being addressed in the USA through a project entitled SAGE and in Europe through a project entitled AERO2K. Both Europe and the USA have agreed to collaborate on these similar projects. The agreement resulted in the exchange of flight movement data in order to realise an air traffic movement inventory, the essential starting point for estimating global aviation emissions. The objective of the inventory in both projects is to provide 4-D flight trajectories (latitude, longitude, altitude and time) using as much measured data as possible. The movement inventory is the essential input to the core module used for computing fuel burn and emissions. This paper details the aircraft movement's data in AERO2K and SAGE.