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Model description paper
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28 Jan 2014
Model description paper |
| 28 Jan 2014
Aircraft routing with minimal climate impact: the REACT4C climate cost function modelling approach (V1.0)
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
C. Frömming
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
S. Matthes
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
S. Brinkop
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
M. Ponater
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
S. Dietmüller
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
P. Jöckel
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
H. Garny
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
E. Tsati
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
K. Dahlmann
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
O. A. Søvde
Center for International Climate and Environmental Research Oslo (CICERO), Oslo, Norway
J. Fuglestvedt
Center for International Climate and Environmental Research Oslo (CICERO), Oslo, Norway
T. K. Berntsen
Center for International Climate and Environmental Research Oslo (CICERO), Oslo, Norway
K. P. Shine
Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, Reading, UK
E. A. Irvine
Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, Reading, UK
T. Champougny
Eurocontrol Headquarter DNM/OPL, Brussels, Belgium
P. Hullah
Eurocontrol Experimental Centre, Bretigny, France
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