Decision-making strategies implemented in SolFinder 1.0 to identify eco-efficient aircraft trajectories: application study in AirTraf 3.0

Castino, Federica; Yin, Feijia; Grewe, Volker; Yamashita, Hiroshi; Matthes, Sigrun; Dietmüller, Simone; Baumann, Sabine; Soler, Manuel; Simorgh, Abolfazl; Mendiguchia Meuser, Maximilian; Linke, Florian; Lührs, Benjamin

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-4031-2024

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17 May 2024

Development and technical paper |

| 17 May 2024

Decision-making strategies implemented in SolFinder 1.0 to identify eco-efficient aircraft trajectories: application study in AirTraf 3.0

Federica Castino, Feijia Yin, Volker Grewe, Hiroshi Yamashita, Sigrun Matthes, Simone Dietmüller, Sabine Baumann, Manuel Soler, Abolfazl Simorgh, Maximilian Mendiguchia Meuser, Florian Linke, and Benjamin Lührs

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-4031-2024-supplement

Data sets

Data accompanying the manuscript "Decision-Making strategies implemented in SolFinder 1.0 to identify eco-efficient aircraft trajectories: application study in AirTraf 3.0" Federica Castino et al. https://doi.org/10.4121/57b96974-6ec7-4e86-9d95-2b7bf3c18d8f

Model code and software

Code accompanying the manuscript "Decision-Making strategies implemented in SolFinder 1.0 to identify eco-efficient aircraft trajectories: application study in AirTraf 3.0" Federica Castino https://doi.org/10.4121/3744b922-ffa6-4f92-ad57-dc93f94e969b

Short summary

We introduce SolFinder 1.0, a decision-making tool to select trade-offs between different objective functions for optimal aircraft trajectories, including fuel use, flight time, NO_x emissions, contrail distance, and climate impact. The module is included in the AirTraf 3.0 submodel and uses weather conditions simulated by the EMAC atmospheric model. This paper focuses on the ability of SolFinder to identify eco-efficient trajectories, reducing a flight's climate impact at limited cost penalties.