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Research article
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30 Nov 2021
Research article |
| 30 Nov 2021
| 30 Nov 2021
Exploring the uncertainties in the aviation soot–cirrus effect
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Institut
für Physik der Atmosphäre, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
Johannes Hendricks
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Institut
für Physik der Atmosphäre, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
Christof Gerhard Beer
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Institut
für Physik der Atmosphäre, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
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- A global climatology of ice-nucleating particles under cirrus conditions derived from model simulations with MADE3 in EMAC C. Beer et al.
- The global impact of the transport sectors on the atmospheric aerosol and the resulting climate effects under the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) M. Righi et al.
- Impacts of ice-nucleating particles on cirrus clouds and radiation derived from global model simulations with MADE3 in EMAC C. Beer et al.
- Investigating an indirect aviation effect on mid-latitude cirrus clouds – linking lidar-derived optical properties to in situ measurements S. Groß et al.
- Quantifying the uncertainties in thermal–optical analysis of carbonaceous aircraft engine emissions: an interlaboratory study T. Sipkens et al.
- Large present-day and future climate forcing due to non-CO2 emissions from global transport J. Hendricks et al.
- The Role of Mineral Dust Aerosol Particles in Aviation Soot‐Cirrus Interactions B. Kärcher et al.
- Understanding the role of contrails and contrail cirrus in climate change: a global perspective D. Singh et al.
- Technical note: Identification of two ice-nucleating regimes for dust-related cirrus clouds based on the relationship between number concentrations of ice-nucleating particles and ice crystals Y. He et al.
- Simulated contrail-processed aviation soot aerosols are poor ice-nucleating particles at cirrus temperatures B. Testa et al.
- Trade-offs in aviation impacts on climate favour non-CO2 mitigation M. Prather et al.
- Continued global warming from aviation even under high-ambition mitigation scenarios B. Aamaas et al.
- Soot aerosols from commercial aviation engines are poor ice-nucleating particles at cirrus cloud temperatures B. Testa et al.
- Differences in microphysical properties of cirrus at high and mid-latitudes E. De La Torre Castro et al.
- Uncertainties in mitigating aviation non-CO2 emissions for climate and air quality using hydrocarbon fuels D. Lee et al.
- Satellite Observations of the Impact of Individual Aircraft on Ice Crystal Number in Thin Cirrus Clouds S. Marjani et al.
- A double-box model for aircraft exhaust plumes based on the MADE3 aerosol microphysics (MADE3 v4.0) M. Sharma et al.
- Properties and Processing of Aviation Exhaust Aerosol at Cruise Altitude Observed from the IAGOS-CARIBIC Flying Laboratory C. Mahnke et al.
- Pathways for including non-carbon dioxide aviation climate effects in the European Emission Trading System V. Grewe et al.
- Exploring the uncertainties in the aviation soot–cirrus effect M. Righi et al.
- An inconsistency in aviation emissions between CMIP5 and CMIP6 and the implications for short-lived species and their radiative forcing R. Thor et al.
- Contrail formation for aircraft with hydrogen combustion – Part 1: A systematic microphysical investigation J. Zink et al.
- Aviation soot interactions with natural cirrus clouds are unlikely to have a significant impact on global climate M. Righi et al.
- HTAP3 Fires: towards a multi-model, multi-pollutant study of fire impacts C. Whaley et al.
- Transforming Aviation’s Impact on the Climate: Rethinking the Research Strategy S. Kallbekken et al.
- Numerical simulation of the impact of COVID-19 lockdown on tropospheric composition and aerosol radiative forcing in Europe S. Reifenberg et al.
- Lidar observations of cirrus cloud properties with CALIPSO from midlatitudes towards high-latitudes Q. Li & S. Groß
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Short summary
A global climate model is applied to simulate the impact of aviation soot on natural cirrus clouds. A large number of numerical experiments are performed to analyse how the quantification of the resulting climate impact is affected by known uncertainties. These concern the ability of aviation soot to nucleate ice and the role of model dynamics. Our results show that both aspects are important for the quantification of this effect and that discrepancies among different model studies still exist.
A global climate model is applied to simulate the impact of aviation soot on natural cirrus...
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