Lidar Measurement of Exhaust Plume Characteristics from Commercial Jet Turbine Aircraft at the Denver International Airport

Résumé du livre

"The Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) Office of Environment and Energy, in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) Volpe Center (Environmental Measurement and Modeling Division), and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Earth System Research Laboratory (partnered with the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences) conducted a LIDAR (LIght Detection And Ranging) measurement study from October 10, 2006 until October 13, 2006, at the Denver International Airport (DEN). This is the third in a series of measurements on this topic with the first two conducted at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) and Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport (ATL). A major goal in all three studies has been to measure the initial plume characteristics of jet exhaust in support of obtaining increased accuracy in air dispersion modeling efforts. All three studies have resulted in cross-sections of the plume, which can be quantified and visualized given initial plume characteristics including plume rise, horizontal plume standard deviation, and vertical plume standard deviation."--Introduction (p. 8).