Sensitivity of contrail cirrus radiative forcing to air traffic scheduling

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 117, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Newinger, Christina ^a,b   Burkhardt, Ulrike ^a  

^a Instiut Fr Physik der Atmosphre Deutsches Zentrum Fr Luft und Raumfahrt ^*  (Germany)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL; AIR TRANSPORTATION; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; RADIATION EFFECTS;

AIR TRAFFICS; ANNUAL MEAN; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; CLIMATE IMPACTS; CLOUD ALBEDO; CONCEPTUAL MODEL; DIURNAL CYCLE; ICE CLOUDS; LIFE-TIME DISTRIBUTION; LONG WAVES; RADIATION BUDGET; RADIATIVE FORCINGS; SHORT WAVES; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION;

CLOUDS;

AIR TRANSPORTATION; ALBEDO; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CIRRUS; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLOUD COVER; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; DIURNAL VARIATION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; RADIATION BUDGET; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SHORTWAVE RADIATION; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION; TRAFFIC CONGESTION; WARMING;

EID: 84861665787     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JD016736     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. Airbus (2007), Global market forecast 2006-2026, Toulouse, France.
2. Bakan, S., M. Betancor, V. Gayler, and H. Grassl (1994), Contrail frequency over Europe from NOAA-satellite images, Ann. Geophys., 12, 962-968.
3. Boucher, O. (1999), Air traffic may increase cirrus cloudiness, Nature, 397, 30-31. (Pubitemid 29038236)
4. Burkhardt, U., and B. Kärcher (2009), Process-based simulation of contrail cirrus in a global climate model, J. Geophys. Res., 114, D16201, doi:10.1029/2008JD011491.
5. Burkhardt, U., and B. Kärcher (2011), Global radiative forcing from contrail cirrus, Nat. Clim. Change, 1, 54-58, doi:10.1038/NCLIMATE1068.
6. Burkhardt, U., B. Kärcher, M. Ponater, K. Gierens, and A. Gettelman (2008), Contrail cirrus supporting areas in model and observations, Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L16808, doi:10.1029/2008GL034056.
7. Chen, C.-T., E. Roeckner, and B. J. Soden (1996), A comparison of satellite observations and model simulations of column-integrated moisture and upper-tropospheric humidity, J. Clim., 9, 1561-1585.
8. Dietmüller, S., M. Ponater, R. Sausen, K. Hoinka, and S. Pechtl (2008), Contrails natural clouds and diurnal temperature range, J. Clim., 21, 5061-5075, doi:10.1175/2008JCLI2255.1.
9. Eyers, C. J., P. Norman, J. Middel, M. Plohr, S. Michot, K. Atkinson, and R. A. Christou (2004), AERO2K global aviation emission inventories for 2002 and 2025, Tech. Rep. QinetiQ/04/01113, QinetiQ Ltd., Farnborough, U. K.
10. Graf, K., H. Mannstein, B. Mayer, and U. Schumann (2009), Some evidence of aviation fingerprint in diurnal cycle of cirrus over the North Atlantic, paper presented at 2nd International Conference on Transport, Atmosphere and Climate, Dtsch. Zent. für Luft und Raumfahrt, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany.
11. Haywood, J. M., R. P. Allan, J. Bornemann, P. M. Forster, P. N. Francis, S. Milton, G. Rädel, A. Rap, K. P. Shine, and R. Thorpe (2009), A case study of the radiative forcing of persistent contrails evolving into contrail-induced cirrus, J. Geophys. Res., 114, D24201, doi:10.1029/ 2009JD012650.
12. Jacobson, M. Z., J. T. Wilkerson, A. D. Naiman, and S. K. Lele (2011), The effects of aircraft on climate and pollution. Part I: Numerical methods for treating the subgrid evolution of discrete size-and composition-resolved contrails from all commercial flights worldwide, J. Comput. Phys., 230, 5115-5132.
13. Lamquin, N., C. J. Stubenrauch, S. Cros, and A. Guignard (2010), A 6-year global climatology of occurrence of upper-tropospheric ice supersaturation inferred from the Amospheric Infrared Sounder and its synergy with MOZAIC, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 10, 7197-7214, doi:10.5194/acp-10-7197-2010.
14. Land, C., M. Ponater, R. Sausen, and E. Roeckner (1999), The ECHAM4. L39(DLR) atmosphere GCM-Technical description and model climatology, Rep. DLR-FB 1999-31, Dtsch. Zent. für Luft und Raumfahrt, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany.
15. Lee, D., D. Fahey, P. Forster, P. Newton, R. Wit, L. Lim, B. Owen, and R. Sausen (2009), Aviation and global climate change in the 21st century, Atmos. Environ., 43, 3520-3537.
16. Marquart, S. (2003), Klimawirkung von Kondensstreifen: Untersuchungen mit einem globalen atmosphärischen Zirkulationsmodell, Rep. DLR-FB 2003-16, Dtsch. Zent. für Luft und Raumfahrt, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany.
17. Meerkötter, R., U. Schumann, D. Dölling, P. Minnis, T. Nakajima, and Y. Tushima (1999), Radiative forcing by contrails Ann. Geophys., 17, 1080-1094.
18. Minnis, P. (2003), Contrails, in Encyclopedia of Atmospheric Sciences, edited by J. Holton, J. Pyle, and J. Curry, pp. 509-520, Academic, London.
19. Minnis, P., D. F. Young, D. P. Garber, L. Nguyen, W. L. Smith Jr., and R. Palikonda (1998), Transformaion of contrails into cirrus during SUCCESS, Geophys. Res. Lett., 25, 1157-1160.
20. Myhre, G., et al. (2009), Intercomaprison of radiative forcing calculations of stratospheric watour vapour and contrails, Meteorol. Z., 18, 585-596.
21. Ponater, M., S. Marquart, and R. Sausen (2002), Contrails in a comprehensive global climate model: Parameterization and radiative forcing results, J. Geophys. Res. 107(D13), 4164, doi:10.1029/2001JD000429. (Pubitemid 43197323)
22. Roeckner, E., K. Arpe, L. Bengtsson, M. Christoph, M. Claussen, L. Dümenil, M. Esch, M. Giorgetta, U. Schliese, and U. Schulzweida (1996), The atmosphere general circulation model ECHAM-4: Model description and simulation of present day climate, Rep. 218, 90 pp., Max Planck Inst. Meteorol., Hamburg, Germany.
23. Schumann, U. (1996), Contrail formation from aircraft exhausts, Meteorol. Z., 5, 4-23.
24. Schumann, U. (2011), A contrail cirrus prediction model, Geosci. Model Dev., 5, 543-580, doi:10.5194/gmd-5-543-2012.
25. Stuber, N., and P. Forster (2007), The impact of diurnal variations of air traffic on contrail radiative forcing, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 7, 3151-3162.
26. Stuber, N., P. Forster, G. Rädel, and K. Shine (2006), The importance of the diurnal and annual cycle of air traffic for contrail radiative forcing, Nature, 441, 864-867.
27. Vazquez-Navarro, M. R. (2009), Life cycle of contrails from a time series of geostationary sattelite images, Rep. DLR-FB 2010-19, Dtsch. Zent.für Luft und Raumfahrt, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany.
28. Wilks, D. (1995), Statistical Methods in the Atmospheric Sciences, Academic, San Diego, Calif.