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TRACECA ETS Seminar
ENVISA organised the Aviation ETS and Climate Change Policy Seminar for TRACECA project on December 14-15 in Istanbul. Read more...
Clean Sky SGO ITD
ENVISA is on track to take part to joint research projects for the Clean Sky SGO (Systems for Green Operations) ITD starting early 2010. More details soon...
EUROCONTROL's INVENTAIR
ENVISA was mandated by EUROCONTROL to create a website dedicated to global aircraft emissions. The site will allow registered users to download and visualise worldwide emission grids based on WISDOM flight movement database.
Impact of Departure Procedures on Local Air Quality
Dates: 2007 - 2008
ENVISA was mandated by the UK National Air Traffic Services (NATS) to assess the impact of new aircraft departure procedures on local air quality in Southeast England. An air quality study at a major airport in the area was carried out, based on the 2006 traffic. Concentration contours were produced and compared between current and future procedures. In addition, concentrations at specific receptor locations corresponding to sensitive areas were calculated.
ENVISA's main tasks were to:
- collect and process aircraft and radar data (list of movements, vertical profiles and horizontal tracks, etc.)
- study and define scenarios
- collect and analyse meteorological data at the airport site for the year 2006
- collect and analyse meteorological data for Southeast England over the last 20 years
- model two airports in LASPORT and ALAQS-AV
- analyse the modelling results
- compare model outputs with monitored values.