Climate change impacts on the critical airports around the World

Aviation is set to be a $trillion industry by 2030.  But it is extremely vulnerable to climate change. Particularly impacting airports. This project will include: assessing extreme weather/sea level vulnerability of each of the selected airport by down-scaling satellite topographic data and re-analysing weather observations.   Machine-learning downscaling of climate projections will be required to compare with detail airport observational data and records of past disruptive extreme weather events. An assessment of climate uncertainty will be required to contextualise the potential future impacts.  A comparison with geohazards will be made for each airport. The second stage of the project will examine how these risk profiles for each major airport can be used to create effective and support decision-making.