Publications & Projects

This page provides an overview of OpenAirClim’s use in research and industry. Please feel free to add to this page. If you make use of OpenAirClim in your research, you may cite it as:

@software{openairclim,
    author={Stefan Völk and Hiroshi Yamashita and Liam Megill and Katrin Dahlmann and Volker Grewe},
    title={OpenAirClim},
    version={0.18.0},
    year={2026},
    doi={10.5281/zenodo.22111864},
    url={https://openairclim.org},
}

Publications using OpenAirClim

• Saleh Walie, A.: Mitigation of Aviation’s Climate Impact: A Scenario-Based Parametric Study in OpenAirClim, MSc thesis, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, 2025.

• Harmsen, A.J.: The Climate Impact of Stratospheric Water Vapour Caused by Aviation Emissions, MSc thesis, Delft University of Technology, 2026. Link.

• Megill, L.: Assessing Contrail Climate Impacts and Metrics with OpenAirClim, PhD dissertation, Delft University of Technology, 2026.

• Völk, S., Yamashita, H., Megill, L., Dahlmann, K. and Grewe, V.: OpenAirClim v0.XX: A framework for assessing the climate impact of aviation emissions, in prep.

• Megill, L. and Grewe, V.: The OpenAirClim v0.XX contrail response modelling and attribution approach, in prep..

Conference Presentations

• Völk, S., Yamashita, H., Megill, L., Matthes, S., Dahlmann, K. and Grewe, V.: OpenAirClim - A framework for the computation of air traffic climate impact based on response modeling (Poster), 4th ECATS Conference 2023, Delft, The Netherlands, 24-26 October, 2023.

• Megill, L., Völk, S., Yamashita, H., Dahlmann, K. and Grewe, V.: Open-Source Aviation Climate Response Modelling with OpenAirClim (Poster), 13th OpenSky Symposium, Norrköping, Sweden, 6-7 November, 2025.

Related Publications

• Megill, L. and Grewe, V.: Investigating the limiting aircraft-design-dependent and environmental factors of persistent contrail formation, Atmospheric Chemistry & Physics, 25, 7, doi: 10.5194/acp-25-4131-2025, 2025.

• Eichinger et al.: Reference set of technical specifications for the MRV, Report EC-CLIMA/2024/NP/0014, European Commission, 2025.

Projects using OpenAirClim

• Non-CO₂ MRV: OpenAirClim is used for small emitters (Method D) within the European Commission’s Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (MRV) framework for non-CO₂ emissions from aviation. The model is integrated into the NEATS tool, under development by EUROCONTROL.

• DINA2030+: Project funded by the Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft and Klimaschutz under the German Aviation Research Program LuFo VI-2. The development of the OpenAirClim contrail module was partially financed by this project.

• HEROPS: The Hydrogen-Electric Zero Emission Propulsion System (HEROPS) project aims to introduce climate-neutral propulsion into regional aircraft. OpenAirClim is being used by Royal NLR to quantify the climate impacts of future aircraft powered by hydrogen.

• Impact Monitor 2: The project aims to deliver a coherent and holistic toolbox and framework for climate impact assessments. OpenAirClim is integrated into the modelling framework.

• 328H2-FC: Project funded by the Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft and Klimaschutz under the German Aviation Research Program LuFo VI-2. The development of the OpenAirClim contrail module was partially financed by this project.