The impacts of climate change on Greek airports

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Gratton, Guy, Padhra, Anil ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2351-7235, Rapsomanikis, Spyridon and Williams, Paul D. (2020) The impacts of climate change on Greek airports. Climatic Change, 160 (2). pp. 219-231. ISSN 0165-0009

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Abstract

Time series of meteorological parameters at ten Greek airports since 1955 indicated the level of climate change in the Eastern Mediterranean area. Using this data, take-off performance was analysed for the DHC-8-400 – a typical short range turboprop airliner, and the A320, a typical medium scale turbofan airliner. For airports with longer runways, a steady but unimportant increase in take-off distances was found. For airports with shorter runways, the results indicate a steady reduction in available payload. At the most extreme case, results show that for an Airbus A320, operating from the, relatively short, 1511m runway at Chios Airport, the required reduction in payload would be equivalent to 38 passengers with their luggage, or fuel for 700 nautical miles (1300 km) per flight, for the period between the A320’s entry to service in 1988 and 2017. These results indicate that for airports where aeroplane maximum take-off mass is a performance limited function of runway length, and where minimum temperatures have increased and/or mean headwind components decreased, climate change has already had a marked impact on the economic activity in the airline industry. Similar analyses could be usefully carried out for other runway-length limited airports, which may often include island airports. It is also noted that previous research has only considered temperature effects, and not wind effects. Wind effects in this study are less significant than temperature, but nonetheless have an effect on both field performance noise and pollution nuisance around airports.

Item Type: Article
Identifier: 10.1007/s10584-019-02634-z
Additional Information: Gratton’s work has been supported by the UK National Centre for Atmospheric Science. The Hellenic National Meteorology Servicereleased meteorological data to S. Rapsomanikis. Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, whichpermits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you giveappropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, andindicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article'sCreative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not includedin the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation orexceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copyof this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Keywords: Airport, Runway, Take-Off Performance, Aeroplane, A320, DHC-8-400, Greece, Mediterranean
Subjects: Hospitality and tourism > Tourism > Aviation
Hospitality and tourism > Tourism > Tourism development
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Depositing User: Anil Padhra
Date Deposited: 15 Jan 2020 12:49
Last Modified: 04 Nov 2024 11:51
URI: https://repository.uwl.ac.uk/id/eprint/6686

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