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A number-based inventory of size-resolved black carbon particle emissions by global civil aviation.

ABSTRACT: With the rapidly growing global air traffic, the impacts of the black carbon (BC) in the aviation exhaust on climate, environment and public health are likely rising. The particle number and size distribution are crucial metrics for toxicological analysis and aerosol-cloud interactions. Here, a size-resolved BC particle number emission inventory was developed for the global civil aviation. The BC particle number emission is approximately (10.9?±?2.1)?×?1025 per year with an average emission index of (6.06?±?1.18)?×?1014 per kg of burned fuel, which is about 1.3% of the total ground anthropogenic emissions, and 3.6% of the road transport emission. The global aviation emitted BC particles follow a lognormal distribution with a geometric mean diameter (GMD) of 31.99?±?0.8 nm and a geometric standard deviation (GSD) of 1.85?±?0.016. The variabilities of GMDs and GSDs for all flights are about 4.8 and 0.08 nm, respectively. The inventory provides new data for assessing the aviation impacts.

SUBMITTER: Zhang X

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6358618 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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A number-based inventory of size-resolved black carbon particle emissions by global civil aviation.

Zhang Xiaole X Chen Xi X Wang Jing J

Nature communications 20190201 1

With the rapidly growing global air traffic, the impacts of the black carbon (BC) in the aviation exhaust on climate, environment and public health are likely rising. The particle number and size distribution are crucial metrics for toxicological analysis and aerosol-cloud interactions. Here, a size-resolved BC particle number emission inventory was developed for the global civil aviation. The BC particle number emission is approximately (10.9 ± 2.1) × 10<sup>25</sup> per year with an average em ...[more]

PMID: 30710090

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