Problem Definition: Previous studies of rocket emissions' impacts struggled from a limited information available on the emission data (composition, distribution, time evolution) and were mostly performed for a single emitted specie type or with a single model. A comprehensive multi-model assessment of the ongoing and potential future impacts of growing rocket launches has never been performed.
Research Objectives:
- Perform and analyse lab experiments focused on alumina chemistry and microphysics
- Simulate impacts of space launchers on atmospheric composition, considering the updated emission information and near-field processing
- Estimate the impacts on atmospheric dynamics
- Estimate the impacts on the future ozone layer and climate
Expected Results:
- Estimates of impacts of different emitted species on the ozone layer and stratospheric dynamics
- Estimates of impacts on atmospheric circulation and climate
- Simulation of various future scenarios, important for policy makers
- Measurements of missing physico-chemical properties of alumina
Secondments:
- Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC, Madrid, Spain, ca. 5 months): chemistry-dynamics feedbacks and stratosphere-troposphere dynamical coupling
- Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI, Villigen, Switzerland, ca. 2 months): lab measurements of alumina chemistry
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