Future aviation radiative forcing
13 June 2016 |Chih-Chieh Chen and Andrew Gettelman |
Simulated 2050 aviation radiative forcing from contrails and aerosols
“Aircraft also emit various aerosols, such as sulfate and black carbon (BC, or soot). In addition to directly absorbing and reflecting radiation, sulfate and BC can alter cloud properties, such as drop and crystal concentration, and cloudiness in the troposphere. These “indirect effects” of aviation aerosols may result in a change in cloud radiative forcing.”