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IPCC / Special Report on Aviation & Global Atmosphere 10 Apr 01 Joyce Penner Professor of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences University of Michigan Summary of recent assessment of climate change (IPCC Third Assessment Report) How do aircraft affect climate and ozone?

Special Report on Aviation and the Global Atmosphere Produced following a request from the International Civil Aviation Authority

Overall effects considered in the IPCC report: Ozone depletion Surface UV-B Radiation Stratosphere Ozone production CH4 decrease Contrail formation Cloud formation? Tropopause Troposphere Emissions: Climate Change CO2, H2O, NOx, SOx Sulfur, soot particles

Subsonic aircraft fly near the tropopause -- where emissions may have a disproportionate impact compared to the same gases emitted at the surface

Topics considered in IPCC Report What are the overall and individual effects of aircraft emissions: CO2, H2O, NOx, soot, sulfur? Will future growth in aviation increase its effect on climate and ozone? Can technology or changes in operations help reduce the impact?

Emissions of CO2, H2O, NOx, soot, and sulfur were estimated for current and future fleets

CO2 is the primary greenhouse gas and aircraft CO2 emissions are an increasing proportion of total emissions

NOx emissions produce ozone, a greenhouse gas, but the predicted increase differs between models:

Nevertheless, there is a substantial increase in O3 as emissions of NOx increase

Changes in the concentration of O3 cause increases in OH which decrease methane, a greenhouse gas:

Water vapor emissions cause contrails when emitted into a region that is nearly saturated.

Contrail occurrence is correlated with aviation fuel use:

This correlation has been used to estimate contrail cover based on modeled temperature and humidity in the upper troposphere:

Cirrus cloudiness seems to increase near areas where contrails form:

Cirrus cloudiness increases as aviation fuel consumption increases:

We use radiative forcing to guage the effects of aviation on climate change Radiative forcing expresses the perturbation or change to the energy balance of the Earth-atmosphere system in watts per square meter (Wm-2). Positive values of radiative forcing imply a net warming, while negative values imply cooling.

Radiative Forcing from Aircraft in 1992:

Q: Aviation NOx increases O3 and reduces CH4, do these RF cancel? The radiative imbalance from O3 & contrails is primarily in the NH; that from CO2 & CH4, global. The global mean RF, O3+CH4, may cancel in terms of global mean surface temperature, but the latitudinal imbalance may cause regional climate change.

Q: How much will Aviation’s use of fossil fuel grow? Civil Aviation has grown rapidly to date, in 1990s reaching about 2.5% of all fossil fuel. By 2050, projections give Aviation an equal or greater share of a growing economy. No substitute for jet fuel (fossil C) is obvious.

Q: How much is Aviation increasing CO2 Q: How much is Aviation increasing CO2? Q: How big is this compared to other sectors or countries? CO2 is projected to increase from fossil fuels & deforestation by +150 ppm from 1990 to 2050. Aviation’s part of this increase is about +6 ppm (range: 4-12). All of the Transportation sector would be about +50 ppm. California, ~10% of U.S., is comparable to Aviation.

Q: How much global warming could be due to Aviation? The effect of Aviation on global warming (+0.05oC from 1990 to 2050) is superimposed on the overall anthropogenic greenhouse warming (+1oC) plus natural variability. It has not been (nor is likely) possible to attribute specific climate change to aircraft, although Aviation is a significant component.

Q: What are the mechanisms that cause radiative forcing in 2050? The major RF components shift (e.g., CO2 becomes more important than O3), but still remain the major contributors to climate change.

Total radiative forcing in 2050 CO2 +.074 W/m2 O3 +.060 CH4 –.045 contrails +.100 strat H2O +.004 sulfur –.009 soot +.009 Compare with overall RF: Greenhouse gases +5.8 Aerosols –1.9

IPCC Special Report on Aviation & Global Atmosphere Aviation’s share of ‘greenhouse gas warming’ will remain a significant fraction of the world total, when compared to other sub-sectors and to many nations. Confidence intervals in some of the “atmospheric effects” are not adequate to quantify climate costs Yet significant - Kyoto scale - reductions in Aviation’s climate impacts, could be achieved with any of several technologies: Further improve fuel efficiency per passenger–km Adopt low-NOx engines Avoid meteorological conditions favoring contrails