Cleaner burning aviation fuels can reduce contrail cloudiness

Voigt, Christiane; Kleine, Jonas; Sauer, Daniel; Moore, Richard H.; Bräuer, Tiziana; Le Clercq, Patrick; Kaufmann, Stefan; Scheibe, Monika; Jurkat-Witschas, Tina; Aigner, Manfred; Bauder, Uwe; Boose, Yvonne; Borrmann, Stephan; Crosbie, Ewan; Diskin, Glenn S.; DiGangi, Joshua; Hahn, Valerian; Heckl, Christopher; Huber, Felix; Nowak, John B.; Rapp, Markus; Rauch, Bastian; Robinson, Claire; Schripp, Tobias; Shook, Michael; Winstead, Edward; Ziemba, Luke; Schlager, Hans; Anderson, Bruce E.

doi:10.1038/s43247-021-00174-y

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Cleaner burning aviation fuels can reduce contrail cloudiness

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Borrmann, Stephan
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Voigt, C., Kleine, J., Sauer, D., Moore, R. H., Bräuer, T., Le Clercq, P., et al. (2021). Cleaner burning aviation fuels can reduce contrail cloudiness. Communications Earth & Environment, 2: 114. doi:10.1038/s43247-021-00174-y.

Zitierlink: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0008-B8C6-9

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Contrail cirrus account for the major share of aviation’s climate impact. Yet, the links between jet fuel composition, contrail microphysics and climate impact remain unresolved. Here we present unique observations from two DLR-NASA aircraft campaigns that measured exhaust and contrail characteristics of an Airbus A320 burning either standard jet fuels or low aromatic sustainable aviation fuel blends. Our results show that soot particles can regulate the number of contrail cirrus ice crystals for current emission levels. We provide experimental evidence that burning low aromatic sustainable aviation fuel can result in a 50 to 70% reduction in soot and ice number concentrations and an increase in ice crystal size. Reduced contrail ice numbers cause less energy deposition in the atmosphere and less warming. Meaningful reductions in aviation’s climate impact could therefore be obtained from the widespread adoptation of low aromatic fuels, and from regulations to lower the maximum aromatic fuel content.