Global Environmental Impact of Supersonic Cruise Aircraft in the Stratosphere

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العنوان: Global Environmental Impact of Supersonic Cruise Aircraft in the Stratosphere
المؤلفون: Raymond L Speth, Sebastian D Eastham, Thibaud M Fritz, Ines Sanz-Morere, Akshat Agarwal, Prakash Prashanth, Florian Allroggen, Steven R H Barrett
بيانات النشر: United States: NASA Center for Aerospace Information (CASI), 2021.
سنة النشر: 2021
مصطلحات موضوعية: Environment Pollution
الوصف: We analyze the climate and ozone impacts of commercial supersonic aircraft using state-of-the-science modeling capabilities ranging from plume to global scale. A scenario-based approach captures variability and uncertainty in the impacts with market adoption, aircraft design choices and regulatory scenarios, focusing on different overland flight restrictions. We find that the notional aircraft considered could attract a market of up to 2.5% of year-2035 seat-kilometers. Overland flight restrictions reduce this market by 80–100%. In comparison to subsonic aircraft, contrails are found to be ∼ 10 times less likely to form behind supersonic jets. A Mach 1.6 jet cruising at 17 km altitude causes 0.85 mDU of depletion per billion seat-km, with 54% of this impact attributable to sulfur emissions and 35% to NOx emissions. As a result, we find a net non-CO2, non-contrail radiative forcing of −0.020mWm−2 per billion seat-km. Long-term adjoint simulations show that net ozone-neutral cruise can be achieved by flying near 14 km, subject to fuel sulfur content and NOx emissions index.
نوع الوثيقة: Report
اللغة: English
URL الوصول: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20205009400
ملاحظات: 110076.02.03.04.20

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رقم الأكسشن: edsnas.20205009400
قاعدة البيانات: NASA Technical Reports