Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
ACP
Articles | Volume 24, issue 16
Articles | Volume 24, issue 16
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-9401-2024
© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-9401-2024
© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 24, issue 16
Research article
 | 
15 Sep 2024
Research article |  | 15 Sep 2024

The importance of an informed choice of CO2-equivalence metrics for contrail avoidance

Audran Borella, Olivier Boucher, Keith P. Shine, Marc Stettler, Katsumasa Tanaka, Roger Teoh, and Nicolas Bellouin

Viewed

Total article views: 4,413 (including HTML, PDF, and XML)
HTML PDF XML Total Supplement BibTeX EndNote
3,601 713 99 4,413 215 100 149
  • HTML: 3,601
  • PDF: 713
  • XML: 99
  • Total: 4,413
  • Supplement: 215
  • BibTeX: 100
  • EndNote: 149
Views and downloads (calculated since 22 Feb 2024)
Cumulative views and downloads (calculated since 22 Feb 2024)

Viewed (geographical distribution)

Total article views: 4,413 (including HTML, PDF, and XML) Thereof 4,401 with geography defined and 12 with unknown origin.
Country # Views %
  • 1
1
 
 
 
 
Latest update: 06 Apr 2026
Download
Short summary
This work studies how to compare the climate impact of the CO2 emitted and contrails formed by a flight. This is applied to contrail avoidance strategies that would decrease climate impact of flights by changing the trajectory of aircraft to avoid persistent contrail formation, at the risk of increasing CO2 emissions. We find that different comparison methods lead to different quantification of the total climate impact of a flight but lead to similar decisions of whether to reroute an aircraft.
Read more
Share
Altmetrics
Final-revised paper
Preprint