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ProfessorArnabMajumdar

Faculty of Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Professor of Transport Risk and Safety
 
 
 
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+44 (0)20 7594 6037a.majumdar

 
 
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Assistant

 

Ms Maya Mistry +44 (0)20 7594 6100

 
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Location

 

604Skempton BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Teoh:2020:10.1021/acs.est.9b05608,
author = {Teoh, R and Schumann, U and Majumdar, A and Stettler, MEJ},
doi = {10.1021/acs.est.9b05608},
journal = {Environmental Science and Technology (Washington)},
pages = {2941--2950},
title = {Mitigating the climate forcing of aircraft contrails by small-scale diversions and technology adoption},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.9b05608},
volume = {54},
year = {2020}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - The climate forcing of contrails and induced-cirrus cloudiness is thought to be comparable to the cumulative impacts of aviation CO2 emissions. This paper estimates the impact of aviation contrails on climate forcing for flight track data in Japanese airspace and propagates uncertainties arising from meteorology and aircraft black carbon (BC) particle number emissions. Uncertainties in the contrail age, coverage, optical properties, radiative forcing, and energy forcing (EF) from individual flights can be 2 orders of magnitude larger than the fleet-average values. Only 2.2% [2.0, 2.5%] of flights contribute to 80% of the contrail EF in this region. A small-scale strategy of selectively diverting 1.7% of the fleet could reduce the contrail EF by up to 59.3% [52.4, 65.6%], with only a 0.014% [0.010, 0.017%] increase in total fuel consumption and CO2 emissions. A low-risk strategy of diverting flights only if there is no fuel penalty, thereby avoiding additional long-lived CO2 emissions, would reduce contrail EF by 20.0% [17.4, 23.0%]. In the longer term, widespread use of new engine combustor technology, which reduces BC particle emissions, could achieve a 68.8% [45.2, 82.1%] reduction in the contrail EF. A combination of both interventions could reduce the contrail EF by 91.8% [88.6, 95.8%].
AU  - Teoh,R
AU  - Schumann,U
AU  - Majumdar,A
AU  - Stettler,MEJ
DO  - 10.1021/acs.est.9b05608
EP  - 2950
PY  - 2020///
SN  - 0013-936X
SP  - 2941
TI  - Mitigating the climate forcing of aircraft contrails by small-scale diversions and technology adoption
T2  - Environmental Science and Technology (Washington)
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.9b05608
UR  - http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000518235100040&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=1ba7043ffcc86c417c072aa74d649202
UR  - https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.9b05608
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/78643
VL  - 54
ER  -
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