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Potential Impacts on Ozone and Climate From a Proposed Fleet of Supersonic Aircraft
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2023-03-01
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Abstract:There has been renewed interest in developing commercial supersonic transport aircraft due to the increased overall demands by the public for air travel, the aspiration for more intercontinental travel, and the desire for shorter flight times. Various companies and academic institutions have been actively considering the designs of such supersonic aircraft. As these new designs are developed, the environmental impact on ozone and climate of these fleets need to be explored. This study examines one such proposed commercial supersonic fleet of 55-seater that is projected to fly at Mach 2.2, corresponding to cruise altitudes of 17–20 km, and which would burn 122.32 Tg of fuel and emit 1.78 Tg of NOx each year.
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Content Notes:This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Please cite this article as: Zhang, J., Wuebbles, D., Pfaender, J. H., Kinnison, D., & Davis, N. (2023). Potential impacts on ozone and climate from a proposed fleet of supersonic aircraft. Earth's Future, 11, e2022EF003409. https://doi. org/10.1029/2022EF003409
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