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Acronyms and Other Initialisms


AASE

Airborne Arctic Stratosphere Expedition

AEAP

Atmospheric Effects of Aviation Project

AER

Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Inc.

AESA

Atmospheric Effects of Stratospheric Aircraft project

ASHOE

Antarctic Southern Hemisphere Ozone Experiment


CAMED

Universities Cambridge and Edinburgh of UK (universities' model)

CIAP

Climatic Impact Assessment Program

CSIRO

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization


EI

Emission index (grams of reference substance emitted per kilogram of fuel burned)


GISS

Goddard Institute for Space Studies

GMI

Global Modeling Initiative

GSFC

Goddard Space Flight Center


HRDI

High-resolution Doppler imager

HSCT

High-speed civil transport

HSRP

High-Speed Research Program


LLNL

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

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MAESA

Measurements for Assessing the Effects of Stratospheric Aircraft (experiment)

MPIC

Max-Planck Institute for Chemistry


NASA

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

NAT

Nitric acid trihydrate

NOx

Reactive nitrogen species (NO + NO2)

NOy

HNO3 + 2(N2O5) + NO3 + HNO4 + ClONO2 + NO + NO2

NRC

National Research Council

NCAR

National Center for Atmospheric Research


OSLO

University of Oslo model


PAEAN

Panel on Atmospheric Effects of Aviation

PSC

Polar stratospheric cloud


SAT

Sulfuric acid tetrahydrate

SBUV

Solar Backscatter UV Spectrometer

SPADE

Stratospheric Photochemistry, Aerosols, and Dynamics Expedition

SST

Supersonic transport

STRAT

Stratospheric Tracers of Atmospheric Transport

STS

Supercooled ternary solution of nitric acid, sulfuric acid, and water


TOMS

Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer


UARP

Upper Atmosphere Research Program

UARS

Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite

UKMO

U.K. Meteorological Office

UNEP

United Nations Environment Programme

UV

Ultraviolet (radiation)


VOC

Volatile organic compound


WMO

World Meteorological Organization

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Scientists and policy-makers alike are concerned that operation of a fleet of high-speed civil transport (HSCT) aircraft could significantly affect the global atmosphere. HSCT emissions may have a direct effect on the chemistry of the atmosphere, leading to changes in the distribution of ozone; they may also have indirect effects on ozone and on global climate through coupling with radiative and dynamical processes in the atmosphere. An assessment of the atmospheric impact of a fleet of HSCTs thus requires not only an understanding of the chemistry of the natural stratosphere and its possible perturbations by HSCT emissions, but also an understanding of the pathways for transport of HSCT emissions within the atmosphere, and the resulting temporal and spatial distribution of HSCT emissions.

The results of NASA's Atmospheric Effects of Stratospheric Aircraft (AESA) project were summarized in a 1995 NASA assessment. The present report looks at that summary and at more recent work to evaluate the state of the science. AESA has made good progress in the past few years. Satellite and aircraft observations have elucidated important aspects of large-scale transport processes. Field campaigns have provided a much better picture of the relative importance, below 20 km altitude, of the major catalytic cycles for ozone destruction. Careful intercomparisons of assessment models have led to reduction of some of the differences among the models. However, a number of uncertainties and inconsistencies still remain.

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