Aviation and the Global Atmosphere Aviation and the Global Atmosphere Get Javascript Other reports in this collection 1.3. These reports are used for contextual information and as a background to the possible impact of aviation on the atmosphere.
Aviation represents only one of many perturbations associated with future scenarios.
There are many sources of climate-active substances. Increases in tropospheric ozone are expected to result from increasing methane, nitrogen oxides, carbon moNO x ide, and hydrocarbon emissions. Some of the processes related to aviation emissions and their location in the atmosphere are shown in Figure 1-2 . The differing chemical and physical processes in the two regions must be taken into account. The troposphere is principally heated near the Earth s surface, and the temperature decreases with altitude.