Advancing Aeronautics and Aerosol research to Accelerate Climate neutral aviation

Project Information

A4Climate

Grant agreement ID: 101192301

DOI

10.3030/101192301

EC signature date 25 November 2024

Start date 1 February 2025

End date 31 January 2029

Funded under

• Climate, Energy and Mobility

Total cost

€ 4 831 975,50

EU contribution

€ 4 831 975,50

Coordinated by

DEUTSCHES ZENTRUM FUR LUFT - UND RAUMFAHRT EV
Germany

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Deliverables

Documents, reports (3)

In-fight measurements in low-soot regime

Report on in-flight measurements of non-volatile and volatile particle emissions- emission indices of the EcoD campaign will be provided - comparison to available data of contrails in the low soot regime will be provided in a report Task 1.3

DEC Plan

Communication, Dissemination & exploitation plan- A document with the plan for communication activities, dissemination and exploitation will be delivered- social media accounts, websites and project cooperate identity will be releasedTask 5.5

Flight test concept study

Report on conceptualization of demonstration flight tests seriesConcept of data flow and use of weather models will be providedTask 3.1

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (6)

An updated microphysical model for particle activation in contrails: the role of volatile plume particles

Author(s): Joel Ponsonby, Roger Teoh, Bernd Kärcher, Marc E. J. Stettler
Published in: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Issue 25, 2025, ISSN 1680-7324
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
DOI: 10.5194/ACP-25-18617-2025

Substantial aircraft contrail formation at low soot emission levels

Author(s): Christiane Voigt, Raphael Märkl, Daniel Sauer, Rebecca Dischl, Charles Renard, Katharina Seeliger, Fangqun Yu, Stefan Kaufmann, Tiziana Bräuer, Tina Jurkat-Witschas, Gauthier Le Chenadec, Julien Moreau, Emiliano Requena-Esteban, Nicolas Bonne, Margaux Vals, Amandine Roche, Joseph Zelina, Andreas Dörnbrack, Lisa Eirenschmalz, Christopher Heckl, Elisabeth Horst, Michael Lichtenstern, Andreas Marsing, Gregor Neumann, Anke Roiger, Monika Scheibe, Paul Stock, Andreas Giez, Georg Eckel, Patrick Le Clercq
Published in: Nature, Issue 652, 2026, ISSN 0028-0836
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/S41586-026-10286-0

Mitigating aviation's environmental impact through alternative fuels and cleaner engines

Author(s): Dischl, R.; Sauer, D.; Voigt, C.; Märkl, R.; Neumann, G.; Bräuer, T.; Harlaß, T.; Kaufmann, S.; et al.
Published in: Science Advances, ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher: Science
DOI: 10.1126/SCIADV.AEG7503

Fuel sulfur content can modulate contrail ice crystal numbers

Author(s): Rebecca Dischl, Raphael Märkl, Daniel Sauer, Christiane Voigt, Theresa Harlaß, Monika Scheibe, Valerian Hahn, Stefan Kaufmann, Andreas Marsing, Andreas Dörnbrack, Anke Roiger, Fangqun Yu, Maxime Gauthier, Charles Renard, Peter Swann, Mark Johnson, Denise Ahrens, Reetu Sallinen, Georg Eckel, Patrick Le Clercq
Published in: Communications Earth & Environment, Issue 6, 2025, ISSN 2662-4435
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/S43247-025-02951-5

An adaptive segmentation approach for contrail detection in meteosat second generation satellite imagery

Author(s): Vanessa Santos Gabriel, Luca Bugliaro, Dennis Piontek, Sabrina Ries, Christiane Voigt
Published in: Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, Issue 19, 2026, ISSN 1867-8548
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
DOI: 10.5194/AMT-19-3271-2026

A manually labeled contrail dataset from MSG/SEVIRI

Author(s): Vanessa Santos Gabriel, Luca Bugliaro, Mara Montag, Sabrina Ries, Ziming Wang, Kai Widmaier, Matteo Arico, Simon Unterstrasser, Johanna Mayer, Deniz Menekay, Andreas Marsing, Elena de la Torre Castro, Liam Megill, Monika Scheibe, Christiane Voigt
Published in: Earth System Science Data, Issue 18, 2026, ISSN 1866-3516
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
DOI: 10.5194/ESSD-18-2397-2026

Other (1)

A4CLIMATE Frankfurt airport campaign (Deliverable 1.1)

Author(s): Vogel, A. L.; Ahmad, M. N.; Ungeheuer, F.
Published in: Zenodo
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.22027362