The global distribution of air traffic at high altitudes, related fuel consumption and trends..- Fuel consumption and emissions of air traffic..- Hydrogen technologies for future aircraft..- Pollutant emissions of existing and future engines for commercial aircrafts..- Constituents and transport properties of the atmosphere above and below the tropopause..- The atmospheric chemical effects of aircraft operations..- Sensitivity of stratospheric ozone to present and possible future aircraft emissions..- Possible climatic effects of contrails and additional water vapour..- Determination of contrails from satellite data and observational results..- An investigation of the climatic effect of contrail cirrus..- Index of Contributors.