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

Scenario #HSCTs<br />

S1b<br />

S1c<br />

S1d<br />

S1e<br />

S9d<br />

S9g<br />

500<br />

500<br />

500<br />

500<br />

1000<br />

1000<br />

EI(NO x )<br />

0<br />

5<br />

10<br />

15<br />

5<br />

10<br />

Absolute Change (µm 2 /cm 3 ) % Change<br />

AER GSFC UNIVAQ AER GSFC UNIVAQ<br />

0.06<br />

0.10<br />

0.13<br />

0.16<br />

0.19<br />

0.26<br />

Table 4-13d: PSC1+PSC2 SAD changes from HSCT (12-24 km, 60-90°S, JJA).<br />

Scenario #HSCTs<br />

S1b<br />

S1c<br />

S1d<br />

S1e<br />

S9d<br />

S9g<br />

500<br />

500<br />

500<br />

500<br />

1000<br />

1000<br />

EI(NO x )<br />

0<br />

5<br />

10<br />

15<br />

5<br />

10<br />

0.03<br />

0.05<br />

0.06<br />

0.07<br />

0.09<br />

0.12<br />

0.03<br />

0.06<br />

0.08<br />

0.09<br />

0.10<br />

0.13<br />

22<br />

33<br />

45<br />

57<br />

66<br />

89<br />

39<br />

56<br />

70<br />

82<br />

102<br />

137<br />

Absolute Change (µm 2 /cm 3 ) % Change<br />

AER GSFC UNIVAQ AER GSFC UNIVAQ<br />

4.3.3.5.1. Sulfate aerosol sensitivity-SO 2 gas-to-particle conversion in <strong>the</strong> supersonic aircraft plume<br />

0.24<br />

0.34<br />

0.42<br />

0.52<br />

0.64<br />

0.80<br />

Supersonic aircraft consuming sulfur-containing fuel will have some effect on sulfate aerosol amounts in <strong>the</strong> stratosphere (see Section 3.7.3). In this assessment, <strong>the</strong><br />

increased SAD from sulfur conversion to particles in <strong>the</strong> plume had a significant impact on stratospheric ozone. Figure 4-8 shows <strong>the</strong> percentage change in annual<br />

average Nor<strong>the</strong>rn Hemisphere total column O 3 correlated to <strong>the</strong> percentage increase in SAD for given SO 2 gas-to-particle conversion assumptions. The percentage<br />

SAD increase is derived by averaging <strong>the</strong> SAD change relative to <strong>the</strong> volcanically clean atmosphere (SA0) within <strong>the</strong> region between 14-21 km <strong>and</strong> 33-90°N. The SAD<br />

percentage increases for 0, 10, 50, <strong>and</strong> 100% SO 2 gas-to-particle conversion assumptions in <strong>the</strong> plume are 27, 38, 82, <strong>and</strong> 111%, respectively. The 0% SAD increase<br />

on <strong>the</strong> abscissa is taken from supersonic scenario S1c; it represents a perturbation without any consideration of aircraft sulfur emissions. The AER model was <strong>the</strong> only<br />

model to compute <strong>the</strong> 0% SO 2 gas-to-particle conversion impact on total O 3 change. Here, <strong>the</strong> additional aircraft-emitted SO 2 gas increased <strong>the</strong> ambient SAD by 27%,<br />

altering <strong>the</strong> total O 3 decrease for <strong>the</strong> AER model from 0.3 (SA0) to 0.6% (SA7). When particle conversion was assumed, all participating models derived relatively<br />

large decreases in total O 3 . In fact, AER <strong>and</strong> GSFC model results for <strong>the</strong> Nor<strong>the</strong>rn Hemisphere showed O 3 depletions of greater than 1% when a 50% SO 2 gas-to-<br />

particle conversion efficiency was assumed.<br />

4.3.3.5.2. PSC sensitivity<br />

http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/sres/aviation/050.htm (6 von 10)08.05.2008 02:42:29<br />

0.18<br />

0.20<br />

0.22<br />

0.24<br />

0.37<br />

0.42<br />

0.17<br />

0.19<br />

0.25<br />

0.27<br />

0.37<br />

0.42<br />

4.6<br />

6.5<br />

8.0<br />

10<br />

12<br />

15<br />

11<br />

12<br />

13<br />

15<br />

23<br />

26<br />

19<br />

37<br />

50<br />

56<br />

62<br />

81<br />

6.7<br />

7.6<br />

10<br />

11<br />

15<br />

17

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