Journal article
Intercomparison of the capabilities of simplified climate models to project the effects of aviation CO2 on climate
A Khodayari, DJ Wuebbles, SC Olsen, JS Fuglestvedt, T Berntsen, MT Lund, I Waitz, P Wolfe, PM Forster, M Meinshausen, DS Lee, LL Lim
Atmospheric Environment | PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD | Published : 2013
Abstract
This study evaluates the capabilities of the carbon cycle and energy balance treatments relative to the effect of aviation CO2 emissions on climate in several existing simplified climate models (SCMs) that are either being used or could be used for evaluating the effects of aviation on climate. Since these models are used in policy-related analyses, it is important that the capabilities of such models represent the state of understanding of the science. We compare the Aviation Environmental Portfolio Management Tool (APMT) Impacts climate model, two models used at the Center for International Climate and Environmental Research-Oslo (CICERO-1 and CICERO-2), the Integrated Science Assessment M..
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Funding Acknowledgements
Arezoo Khodayari, Donald J. Wuebbles and Seth Olsen would like to thank the Federal Aviation Administration, Aviation Climate Change Research Initiative (ACCRI) for support under Contract #: 10-C-NE-UI amendment 001 and the Partnership for AiR Transportation Noise and Emissions Reduction (PARTNER). The opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of ACCRI, PARTNER, or the FAA. David S. Lee and Ling L Lim were partly funded by the UK Department for Transport. Marianne Lund, Jan Fuglestvedt and Terje Berntsen were funded by FAA (ACCRI) and the Norwegian research Council (TEMPO).