Projecting Aircraft Performance Using Regional Climate Data

Abstract

While the impact of local weather conditions on aircraft performance is well-documented, climate change has the potential to create long-term shifts in aircraft performance. Using just one metric, internal load capacity, we document operationally relevant performance changes for a UH-60L within the Indo-Pacific region. This presentation uses publicly available climate and aircraft performance data to create a representative analysis. The underlying methodology can be applied at varying geographic resolutions, timescales, airframes, and aircraft performance characteristics across the entire globe.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 27, 2023
Accession Number
AD1212353

Entities

People

  • Astrid I. Berge
  • Jennifer L. Bewley
  • R. A. Holland

Organizations

  • Institute for Defense Analyses

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Air Force
  • Air Force Facilities
  • Aircrafts
  • Airframes
  • Army Aircraft
  • Biological Phenomena
  • Climate Change
  • Climatic Processes
  • Department Of Defense
  • Ecological And Environmental Phenomena
  • Ecological And Environmental Processes
  • Energy Security
  • Fuel Consumption
  • Ground Effect
  • High Altitude
  • Organizational Structure
  • Seasonal Variations
  • Security
  • Test And Evaluation

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Climatology
  • Life Cycle Cost Analysis
  • Neural Network Machine Learning.