Improving climate resilience in the aviation sector means ensuring safe operations even when facing extreme weather conditions and a shifting climate. The urgent need to reduce the impact of aviation on climate is complemented by the equally pressing need to enhance its resilience to ongoing changes. AEROPLANE is a three-year exploratory research project bringing together the consortium partners, Deep Blue, Amigo Climate, Universitaet Leipzig, Eurocontrol, University of Reading, to develop innovative, tailored solutions for a resilient aviation industry.

Climate services and aviation

Climate services transform the latest and most reliable knowledge on climate and on climate change into actionable information across various sectors. Nonetheless, although crucial, these services are relatively new to the aviation sector. In this context, the AEROPLANE project aims to bridge this gap by collaborating with key stakeholders, including ATCOs, airport operators, drone operators and manufacturers to co-design two innovative proof-of-concept (PoC) climate services. These services will take shape in the innovative AEROPLANE integrated toolkit for aviation, enabling users to make data-informed decisions for a greener and more resilient aviation industry.

Integrated toolkit for aviation and its PoC climate services

The two PoC climate services developed within the AEROPLANE project, building on the expertise of consortium partner, Amigo Climate, focuses on:

• Quantifying and reducing aviation’s climate impact:

This climate service addresses both CO₂ and non-CO₂ effects, like the impact of contrail on cirrus clouds. It aims to measure the impact of flight trajectories and help users, like airlines and air traffic controllers, to consider alternative, less impactful routes.

• Enhancing resilience to extreme weather:

This Climate Service focuses on how extreme temperatures can affect take-off performance and noise pollution. An innovative module also explores the impacts of extreme temperatures and windstorms on emerging drone-operated services.

This crucial information about changing meteorological variables will be embedded in the AEROPLANE PoC Climate Services for understanding how future climate scenarios could impact aviation operations in the near future, supporting the development of strategies to mitigate these effects.

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