Will climate change increase transatlantic aviation turbulence? Paul Williams University of Reading, UK
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1 Will climate change increase transatlantic aviation turbulence? Paul Williams University of Reading, UK
2 Aviation turbulence
3 Aviation turbulence Annually, in the USA alone, aircraft encounter moderate turbulence (>0.5g) 65,000 times and severe turbulence (>1.0g) 5,500 times. These encounters: cause about 40 fatalities and 100s of serious injuries cause structural damage to planes cause flight diversions and delays cost airlines $150m $500m Ralph et al. (1997)
4 Aviation turbulence Recently turbulence plunged a United Airlines plane 300 metres (900 feet), killing one passenger and injuring over 100 other people on a flight from Japan to Hawaii. In other incidents, turbulent air has ripped off aeroplane engines, snapped wings in two, hurled food carts to the ceiling, and broken passengers and flight attendants bones. Each year societal costs resulting from turbulence-related incidents reach almost $100 million for human injuries, aircraft damage, and government investigations. Turbulence is the primary cause of nonfatal injuries to airline passengers and crew. - Meteorological Applications (5)2, page 183, 1998.
5 Clear-air turbulence (CAT) CAT occurs in clear skies at cruise altitudes, above clouds and storms CAT is difficult to avoid, because it cannot be seen by pilots or detected by satellites or on-board radar Aircraft spend about 3% of their cruise time in light CAT (Watkins & Browning 1973) and about 1% in moderate CAT (Sharman et al. 2006) CAT is forecast operationally by computing various diagnostic measures from the large-scale flow, e.g. those due to Colson & Panofsky (1965), Brown (1973), and Ellrod & Knapp (1992) World Area Forecast Centres (in London and Washington) use such diagnostics to issue global CAT forecasts every six hours (Gill 2012) The diagnostics show moderate skill when evaluated against pilot reports of turbulence, especially when used in combination (Sharman et al. 2006)
6 Probable mechanism for CAT height (z) The stratification, ρ/ z, is stabilizing The wind shear, u/ z, is destabilizing Kelvin Helmholtz instability occurs if: Ri = (-g/ρ ρ/ z) / ( u/ z) 2 < ¼
7 Probable mechanism for CAT Thorpe (1969) De sterrennacht, van Gogh (1889)
8 Impact of climate change on jet... but cools the stratosphere... z y More CO 2 warms the troposphere... u u z T y... implying stronger UTLS wind shears equator Lorenz & DeWeaver (2007) north pole
9 Increased turbulence injuries Number of serious injuries (including fatalities) caused by turbulence, per million flight departures (US carriers) Caused by increase in load factors? FAA (2006)
10 Methodology We use the GFDL-CM2.1 model (Delworth et al. 2006) this is a CMIP3 model with a high top level and daily data atmosphere resolution is , with 24 levels (5 above 200 hpa) the upper-level winds in the northern extra-tropics agree well with reanalysis data (Reichler & Kim 2008) the jet stream in the North Atlantic sector strengthens under global warming (Stouffer et al. 2006), consistent with other CMIP3 models We take 20 years of daily-mean data from each of two simulations: pre-industrial control and doubled-co 2 focus on winter, which is when Northern Hemispheric CAT is most intense (Jaeger & Sprenger 2007) calculate CAT diagnostics on the 200 hpa pressure level, which close to typical cruise altitudes focus on the North Atlantic flight corridor, one of the world s busiest, with 300 flights per day in each direction (Irvine et al. 2013)
11 Daily maps of TI1 in one December PRE-INDUSTRIAL DOUBLED CO2 TI1 u z u x 2 v y v x 2 u y
12 Histograms of TI1 in DJF The median strength of CAT increases by 32.8% 50-75N, 10-60W The probability of moderate-orgreater (MOG) CAT increases by 10.8% Williams & Joshi (2013)
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14 Diagnostic Units Pre- Industrial Median Doubled- CO 2 Median Change ( %) in Median Change (%) in Frequency of MOG Magnitude of potential vorticity PVU Colson Panofsky index 10 3 kt Brown index 10-6 s Magnitude of horizontal temperature gradient 10-6 K m mostly in range 10-40% Magnitude of horizontal divergence 10-6 s Magnitude of vertical shear of horizontal wind 10-3 s Wind speed times directional shear 10-3 rad s Flow deformation 10-6 s Wind speed m s Flow deformation times vertical temperature gradient 10-9 K m -1 s mostly in range % Negative Richardson number Magnitude of relative vorticity advection s Magnitude of residual of nonlinear balance equation s Negative absolute vorticity advection s Brown energy dissipation rate 10-6 J kg -1 s Relative vorticity squared 10-9 s Variant 1 of Ellrod s Turbulence Index 10-9 s Flow deformation times wind speed 10-3 m s Variant 2 of Ellrod s Turbulence Index 10-9 s Frontogenesis function 10-9 m 2 s -3 K Version 1 of North Carolina State University index s
15 Agreement on change in DJF LHRSFO Williams & Joshi (2013)
16 Summary A basket of 21 CAT measures diagnosed from climate simulations is significantly modified if the CO 2 is doubled At cruise altitudes within 50-75N and 10-60W in winter, most measures show a 10-40% increase in the median strength of CAT and a % increase in the frequency of occurrence of moderate-or-greater CAT We conclude that climate change will lead to bumpier transatlantic flights by the middle of this century Implications: Flight paths may become more convoluted to avoid stronger, more frequent patches of turbulence, in which case journey times will lengthen and fuel consumption and emissions will increase The large-scale atmospheric circulation could be impacted, because CAT contributes significantly to troposphere stratosphere exchange
17 Further information Williams, PD and Joshi, MM (2013) Intensification of transatlantic aviation turbulence in response to anthropogenic climate change. Nature Climate Change 3(7), Knox, JA, McCann, DW and Williams, PD (2008) Application of the Lighthill-Ford theory of spontaneous imbalance to clear-air turbulence forecasting. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences 65(10), Williams, PD, Haine, TWN and Read, PL (2008) Inertia-gravity waves emitted from balanced flow: observations, properties, and consequences. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences 65(11), Williams, PD, Haine, TWN and Read, PL (2005) On the generation mechanisms of shortscale unbalanced modes in rotating two-layer flows with vertical shear. Journal of Fluid Mechanics 528,
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