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. 2009 Jun 12;44(37):4678–4734. doi: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2009.06.005

Table 3.

Estimations of historical and current emissions from inventory models, 1990–2005.

Year Inventory Civil fuel (Tg yr−1) Military fuel (Tg yr−1) Total fuel (Tg yr−1) Total CO2 (Tg yr−1) Distance (civil, 109 km) NOx (Tg NO2 yr−1) EINOx (g NOx/kg fuel)
1990 FAST 105 n.c. 331 15.7 1.42
1992 NASA 114 25.5 139 359 n.c. 1.44 12.6(12.0)
1992 ANCAT/EC2 114 17.1 131 360 n.c. 1.60(1.81) 14.0(13.8)
1999 NASA 128 (134 inc. charter) n.c. 404 (423 inc. charter) 25.8 1.69 13.2
2000 TRADEOFF 152 17.1a 169 480 25.1 1.95(2.15) 12.7(12.9)
2000 FAST 152 n.c. 480 26.9 2.03 13.4
2000 SAGE 181 n.c. 572 33.3 2.51 13.8
2001 SAGE 170 n.c. 536 31.9 2.35 13.8
2002 SAGE 171 n.c. 539 32.6 2.41 14.1
2002 AERO2K 156 19.5 176 492(553) 33.2 2.06(2.24) 13.2(12.7)
2003 SAGE 176 n.c. 557 34.5 2.49 14.1
2004 SAGE 188 n.c. 594 37.0 2.69 14.3
2005 SAGE 203 n.c. 641 40.7 2.90 14.2

References: ‘FAST’, Lee et al. (2005); ‘NASA’, Baughcum et al., 1996, Sutkus et al., 2001; ‘ANCAT/EC2’, Gardner et al. (1998); ‘TRADEOFF’, Gauss et al. (2006); ‘SAGE’, Kim et al. (2007); ‘AERO2K’, Eyers et al. (2005).

a

Military emissions adopted from other study; n.c. not calculated; brackets include military emissions.