Impact of aviation on climate: FAA's Aviation Climate Change Research Initiative (ACCRI) phase II

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 97, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 561-583

  Brasseur, Guy P ^a,b   Gupta, Mohan ^c   Anderson, Bruce E ^d   Balasubramanian, Sathya ^e   Barrett, Steven ^f   Duda, David ^d   Fleming, Gregggg ^e   Forster, Piers M ^g   Fuglestvedt, Jan ^h   Gettelman, Andrew ^b   Halthore, Rangasayi N ^c   Jacob, S Daniel ^c   Jacobson, Mark Z ⁱ   Khodayari, Arezoo ^j,s   Liou, Kuo Nan ^k   Lund, Marianne T ^h   Miake Lye, Richard C ^l   Minnis, Patrick ^d   Olsen, Seth ^j   Penner, Joyce E ^m   Prinn, Ronald ^f   Schumann, Ulrich ⁿ   Selkirk, Henry B ^o   Sokolov, Andrei ^f   Unger, Nadine ^p   Wolfe, Philip ^f   Wong, Hsi Wu ^l,r   Wuebbles, Donald W ^j   Yi, Bingqi ^q   Yang, Ping ^q   Zhou, Cheng ⁿ   more..

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION   (United States)

^d NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^e U S DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION   (United States)

^f MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^h University of Leeds ^*  (Norway)

ⁱ STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^l AERODYNE RESEARCH INC   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

ⁿ DLRDLRDLR   (Germany)

^o NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^p YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^q TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^r CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^s UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS;

ATMOSPHERIC MODEL; FUTURE CLIMATE; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; PHASE II; RESEARCH INITIATIVES; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84971422097     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-13-00089.1     Document Type: Article

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