Aircraft Emissions and The Environment

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"It has been known since the 1960s that the emission of nitrous oxides and water vapor in the engine exhaust from supersonic transport planes may be destructive to the ozone layer, the layer which keeps much of the sun=s biologically harmful ultraviolet radiation from reaching the Earth=s surface (5).

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"It has been known since the 1960s that the emission of nitrous oxides and water vapor in the engine exhaust from supersonic transport planes may be destructive to the ozone layer, the layer which keeps much of the sun=s biologically harmful ultraviolet radiation from reaching the Earth=s surface (5). This paper will look at the data which has emerged over the years since then in respect to the effects of aircraft emissions on stratospheric ozone.


In 1995, the Nobel prize in chemistry was awarded to three atmospheric chemists for their research which identified chemicals that destroy stratospheric ozone (5). The discovery paved the way for an international agreement to ban the production of ozone-destroying compounds known as chlorofluorocarbons, beginning on January 1, 1996. Paul Crutzen discovered that a naturally produced compound, nitrous oxide, spawns related chemicals in the atmosphere which..."

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