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<strong>Aviation</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>Global</strong> <strong>Atmosphere</strong><br />

This chapter has many ties to o<strong>the</strong>r chapters in this document. The aircraft fleet emissions used in model computations for current (circa 1992) <strong>and</strong> future (roughly<br />

2015 <strong>and</strong> 2050) aircraft are described in Chapter 9. A discussion of <strong>the</strong> validity of models used here to accurately represent <strong>the</strong> present atmosphere is contained in<br />

Chapter 2. Information about <strong>the</strong> interaction between aerosols <strong>and</strong> aircraft emissions is presented in Chapter 3. Model computations of <strong>the</strong> distribution of a passive<br />

tracer emitted according to aircraft fuel burn are also presented in Chapter 3, <strong>and</strong> are used here to generate soot distributions by scaling to EI(soot). This tracer<br />

experiment is also used to evaluate <strong>the</strong> different transport characteristics of <strong>the</strong> models with respect to stratosphere-troposphere exchange <strong>and</strong> upper tropospheric<br />

mixing. Results presented in this chapter are incorporated in Chapters 5 <strong>and</strong> 6.<br />

An evaluation of <strong>the</strong> effects of subsonic <strong>and</strong> supersonic engine effluent on atmospheric trace constituents is presented in Sections 4.2 <strong>and</strong> 4.3, respectively. A<br />

discussion of uncertainties in model results is given in Section 4.4, <strong>and</strong> a discussion concerning <strong>the</strong> selection of model simulations used for some of <strong>the</strong> computations<br />

in Chapters 5 <strong>and</strong> 6 is presented in Section 4.5.<br />

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