The impacts of climate change on Greek airports

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dc.contributor.authorGratton, Guy
dc.contributor.authorPadhra, Anil
dc.contributor.authorRapsomanikis, Spyridon
dc.contributor.authorWilliams, Paul D.
dc.date.accessioned2020-09-01T14:47:34Z
dc.date.available2020-09-01T14:47:34Z
dc.date.issued2020-02-13
dc.description.abstractTime 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.en_UK
dc.identifier.citationGratton G, Padhra A, Rapsomanikis S, Williams PD. (2020) The impacts of climate change on Greek airports. Climatic Change, Volume 160, May 2020, pp. 219-231en_UK
dc.identifier.issn0165-0009
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-019-02634-z
dc.identifier.urihttps://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/15737
dc.language.isoenen_UK
dc.publisherSpringeren_UK
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/*
dc.subjectAirporten_UK
dc.subjectRunwayen_UK
dc.subjectTake-Off Performanceen_UK
dc.subjectAeroplaneen_UK
dc.subjectA320en_UK
dc.subjectDHC-8-400en_UK
dc.subjectGreeceen_UK
dc.subjectMediterraneanen_UK
dc.titleThe impacts of climate change on Greek airportsen_UK
dc.typeArticleen_UK

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