Preventing depletion of stratospheric ozone---Implications on future aircraft emissions: Revision 1

Conference · Mon May 01 04:00:00 EDT 1989

OSTI ID:5993150

Kinnison, D. E.; Wuebbles, D. J.

There is much renewed interest in the development of faster aircraft for intercontinental passenger flights. Such aircraft would likely spend a large fraction of their flight time in the stratosphere, at altitudes as high as 35 km. It is important, in order to prevent the problems with the proposed supersonic-transport that occurred in the early 1970's, that the aircraft industry work together with the atmospheric science community to insure that future aircraft emissions will not deplete stratospheric ozone. In this study, we have used our two-dimensional model of the troposphere and stratosphere to examine the sensitivity of stratospheric ozone to such emissions. Initial results indicate, for commercial fleets as large as proposed for the original SST and depending on the odd-nitrogen emissions per engine, that substantial decreases in stratospheric ozone could result. The decrease in ozone is sensitive to the altitude and latitude in the emissions. Effects on ozone, for the same emission rate, tend to be larger as altitude increases, until a maximum effect is reached near 30 km. 10 refs., 8 figs.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-48
• OSTI ID: 5993150
• Report Number(s): UCRL-99926-Rev.1; CONF-890692-4-Rev.1; ON: DE89013779
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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