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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-9401-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-9401-2024
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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

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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.
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