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Air Pollution Sources, Statistics and Health Effects pp 327–345Cite as

Aviation and Atmosphere

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Part of the Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology Series book series (ESSTS)

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  • R. A. Meyers (ed.), Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology, © Springer Science+Business Media LLC, 2012

Glossary

AIC :

Aviation-induced cloudiness is the sum of all changes in cloudiness associated with aviation operations hence, it combines contrails and so-called persistent contrail cover.

Airline emission index :

A measure to compare the performance of different airlines with respect to emissions relative to an ideal one.

Aviation :

Here: commercial air traffic.

Contrails :

Jet engine exhaust condensation trails of airplanes.

Emission trading :

A market-based approach used to control pollution by providing economic incentives for achieving reductions in the emissions of pollutants.

GWP :

The global warming potential is a relative measure of how much heat a greenhouse gas traps in the atmosphere. It compares the amount of heat trapped by a certain mass of the gas in question to the amount of heat trapped by the same mass of carbon dioxide.

GTP :

The GTP is defined as the ratio between the global mean surface temperature change at a given future time horizon following an emission (pulse...

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Acknowledgment

I am very thankful to Dietrich Brockhagen from atmosfair for many discussions over the years on attempts to integrate aviation into the emission reduction arena and especially on different metrics to account for the climate effects of air traffic besides those by CO2.

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    Hartmut Grassl

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  1. School of Civil, Environmental and Mining Engineering The Australian School of Petroleum, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia

    Michael Evan Goodsite

  2. Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, Airlabs, Copenhagen, Denmark

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  3. Department of Environmental Sciences, Aarhus University, Roskilde, Denmark

    Ole Hertel

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Grassl, H. (2012). Aviation and Atmosphere. In: Goodsite, M.E., Johnson, M.S., Hertel, O. (eds) Air Pollution Sources, Statistics and Health Effects. Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology Series. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-0596-7_555

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