Aviation Air Quality and Climate

Identifying the ozone-neutral aircraft cruise altitude

Thibaud M Fritz, Irene C Dedoussi, Sebastian D Eastham, Raymond L Speth, Daven K Henze, Steven RH Barrett
Environmental Science:Atmospheres
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2022.119057

Air Quality
Emissions

Aerosol formation pathways from aviation emissions

Prakash Prashanth, Sebastian D Eastham, Raymond L Speth, Steven R H Barrett
Environmental Research Communications

Air Quality
Climate

Impacts of a near-future supersonic aircraft fleet on atmospheric composition and climate

Sebastian D Eastham, Thibaud Fritz, Ines Sanz-Morere, Prakash Prashanth, Florian Allroggen, Ronald G Prinn, Raymond L Speth, Steven R H Barrett
Environmental Science:Atmospheres
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2022/EA/D1EA00081K

Contrails

Impacts of multi-layer overlap on contrail radiative forcing

Ines Sanz-Morère, Sebastian. D. Eastham, Florian. Allroggen, Raymond. L. Speth, Steven R. H. Barrett
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-1649-2021

Climate
Emissions

Reanalysis-driven simulations may overestimate persistent contrail formation by 100%–250%

Akshat Agarwal, Vincent R Meijer, Sebastian D Eastham, Raymond L Speth, and Steven R H Barrett
Environ. Res. Lett. 17 014045
https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac38d9

Air Quality

Climate and Air Quality Impacts of Electric Vehicles and Comparison to U.S. Tax Credits

Tae Joong (TJ) Park
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Policy & Economics & Operations

Cost Optimization of US Sustainable Aviation Fuel Supply Chain Under Different Policy Constraints

Walter T. Kelso III
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Technology

Electrical characteristics of wire-to-wire dielectric barrier discharges

Haofeng Xu, Nicolas Gomez-Vega, Nicholas D Wilde, Jayaprakash D Kambhampaty, and Steven R H Barrett
Plasma Sources Sci. Technol. 30 08LT01
https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6595/ac0a45

Climate

Quantifying and reducing the uncertainties in global contrail radiative forcing

Akshak Agarwal
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Climate

Estimating life cycle carbon emissions of the global oil supply chain at a high-resolution using optimization in a network model

Yash Dixit
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Air Quality

Air pollution impacts of COVID-19-related containment measures

Guillaume P Chossière, Haofeng Xu, Yash Dixit, Stewart Isaacs, Sebastian D Eastham, Florian Allroggen, Raymond L Speth, Steven R H Barrett
ScienceAdvances
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abe1178

Emissions

Estimating launch vehicle trajectories and atmospheric emissions

Cassandre Victoria Marie Pradon
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Climate
Fuels
Life Cycle Assessment

Estimating life cycle carbon emissions of the global oil supply chain at a high-resolution using optimization in a network model

Yash Dixit
SM Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, May 2021

Urban air mobility

System Level Optimization of Urban Air Mobility

Grace Wijaya
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Climate

Reducing uncertainty in contrail radiative forcing resulting from uncertainty in ice crystal properties

Inés Sanz-Morère , Sebastian D. Eastham, Raymond L. Speth, and Steven R. H. Barrett
Environ. Sci. Technol. Lett. 2020, 7, 6, 371–375
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.estlett.0c00150

Air Quality
Emissions

Premature mortality related to United States cross-state air pollution

Irene C. Dedoussi, Sebastian D. Eastham, Erwan Monier, Steven R.H. Barrett
Nature 578, pp. 261–265, 2020
doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-1983-8

Air Quality
Climate

Marginal climate and air quality costs of aviation emissions

Carla Grobler, Philip J Wolfe, Kingshuk Dasadhikari, Irene C Dedoussi, Florian Allroggen, Raymond L Speth, Sebastian D Eastham, Akshat Agarwal, Mark D Staples, Jayant Sabnis, Steven R H Barrett
Environmental Research Letters 14(11), 2019
doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/ab4942

Technology

Higher thrust-to-power with large electrode gap spacing electroaerodynamic devices for aircraft propulsion

Haofeng Xu, Nicolas Gomez-Vega, Devansh R Agrawal and Steven R H Barrett
Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, Volume 53, Number 2
https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6463/ab4a4c

Technical, economic, and environmental assessment of liquid fuel production on aircraft carriers

Liam J.F. Comidy, Mark D. Staples, and Steven R.H. Barrett
Applied Energy 256, page 113810
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2019.113810

Evolution of sectoral emissions and contributions to mortality from particulate matter exposure in the Asia-Pacific region between 2010 and 2015

Kingshuk Dasadhikari, Sebastian D. Eastham, Florian Allroggen, Raymond L. Speth, and Steven R.H. Barrett
Atmostpheric Environment 216, page 116916
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2019.116916

Air Quality
Emissions
Policy & Economics & Operations

The co-pollutant cost of carbon emissions: an analysis of the US electric power generation sector

Irene C Dedoussi, Florian Allroggen, Robert Flanagan, Tyler Hansen, Brandon Taylor, Steven R H Barrett and James K Boyce
Environmental Research Letters 14 094003
https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab34e3

Technology

A dielectric barrier discharge ion source increases thrust and efficiency of electroaerodynamic propulsion

Haofeng Xu, Yiou He, Steven R.H. Barrett
Appl. Phys. Lett. 114, 254105
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5100524

Air Quality
Technology

Technical and environmental assessment of all-electric 180-passenger commercial aircraft

A. Gnadt, R. L. Speth, J. S. Sabnis, and S. R. H. Barrett
Progress in Aerospace Sciences Volume 105, February 2019, Pages 1-30
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paerosci.2018.11.002

economy
environment

Technological, economic and environmental prospects of all-electric aircraft

Steven R. H. Barrett, Khan Doyme, Lynnette M. Dray, Albert R. Gnadt, Rod Self, Aidan O’Sullivan, Athanasios P. Synodinos, Antonio J. Torija
Nature
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-018-0294-x

Air Quality
Emissions

SCOPE11 Method for Estimating Aircraft Black Carbon Mass and Particle Number Emissions

Akshat Agarwal, Raymond L. Speth , Thibaud M. Fritz, S. Daniel Jacob, Theo Rindlisbacher, Ralph Iovinelli, Bethan Owen, Richard C. Miake-Lye, Jayant S. Sabnis, and Steven R. H. Barrett
Environ. Sci. Technol. 2019, 53, 3, 1364-1373
https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.8b04060

Climate
Policy & Economics & Operations
Technology

Energy, economic, and environmental prospects of all-electric aircraft

Andreas W. Schäfer, Steven R.H. Barrett, Khan Doyme, Lynnette M. Dray, Albert R. Gnadt, Rod Self, Aidan O’Sullivan, Athanasios P. Synodinos, and Antonio J. Torija
Nature Energy 4, 160–166
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-018-0294-x

Technology

Flight of an aeroplane with solid-state propulsion

Haofeng Xu, Yiou He, Kieran L. Strobel, Christopher K. Gilmore, Sean P. Kelley, Cooper C. Hennick, Thomas Sebastian, Mark R. Woolston, David J. Perreault & Steven R. H. Barrett
Nature 563, 532–535
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0707-9

Air Quality
Climate
Policy & Economics & Operations

Using Dynamic Relative Climate Impact curves to quantify the climate impact of bioenergy production systems over time

Sierk de Jong, Mark Staples, Carla Grobler, Vassilis Daioglou, Robert Malina, Steven Barrett, Ric Hoefnagels, Andre Faaij, and H Junginger
Global Change Biology Bioenergy 11:427–443
https://doi.org/10.1111/gcbb.12573

Air Quality
Atmospheric Modeling
Climate

Life cycle greenhouse gas emissions and costs of production of diesel and jet fuel from municipal solid waste

Pooja Suresh, Robert Malina, Mark Staples, Sebastien Lizin, Hakan Olcay, Damian Blazy, Matthew Pearlson, and Steven R. H. Barrett
Environmental Science & Technology 52, 21, 12055-12065
https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.7b04277

Country- and manufacturer-level attribution of air quality impacts due to excess NOx emissions from diesel passenger vehicles in Europe

Guillaume P. Chossière, Robert Malina, Florian Allroggen, Sebastian D. Eastham, Raymond L. Speth, and Steven R.H. Barrett
Atmospheric Environment 189, pp. 89-97
doi: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2018.06.047

Techno-economic and environmental evaluation of producing chemicals and drop-in aviation biofuels via aqueous phase processing

Hakan Olcay, Robert Malina, Aniruddha A. Upadhye, James I. Hileman, George W. Huber and Steven R. H. Barrett
Energy and Environmental Science
doi: 10.1039/C7EE03557H

Quantifying the impact of sulfate geoengineering on mortality from air quality and UV-B exposure

Sebastian D. Eastham, Debra K. Weisenstein, David W. Keith, Steven R. H. Barrett
Atmospheric Environment
doi: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2018.05.047

Air Quality

Mortality tradeoff between air quality and skin cancer from changes in stratospheric ozone

Sebastian D. Eastham, David W. Keith, Steven R. H. Barrett,
Environmental Research Letters
doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/aaad2e

Fuels

Aviation CO2 emissions reductions from the use of alternative jet fuels.

Mark. D Staples, Robert Malina, Pooja Suresh, James I. Hileman, Steven R. H. Barrett
Energy Policy 114, pp 342-354, 2017
doi: 10.1016/j.enpol.2017.12.007

Technology

Electroaerodynamic thruster performance as a function of altitude and flight speed

Christopher Gilmore and Steven R. H. Barrett
AIAA Journal
http://doi.org/10.2514/1.J056138

Atmospheric Modeling
Climate
Fuels

Impact of biofuels on contrail warming

Fabio Caiazzo, Akshat Agarwal, Raymond L. Speth and Steven R. H. Barrett
Environmental Research Letters 12 (11), 2017
doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/aa893b

Noise

Current and future noise impacts of the UK hub airport

Philip J. Wolfe, John L. Kramer, and Steven R.H. Barrett
Journal of Air Transport Management 58, pp 91-99, 2017
doi: 10.1016/j.jairtraman.2016.09.002

Air Quality

An Inter-comparative Study of the Effects of Aircraft Emissions on Surface Air Quality

M. A. Cameron, M. Z. Jacobson, S. R. H. Barrett, H. Bian, C. C. Chen, S. D. Eastham, A. Gettelman, A. Khodayari, Q. Liang, D. Phoenix, H. B. Selkirk, N. Unger, D. J. Wuebbles, X. Yue
Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres 122 (15), pp 8235-8344, 2017
doi: 10.1002/2016JD025594

Air Quality
Climate
Policy & Economics & Operations

Reducing the air quality and CO2 climate impacts of taxi and takeoff operations at airports

Akshay Ashok, Hamsa Balakrishnan and Steven R. H. Barrett
Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment 54, pp 287-303, 2017
doi: 10.1016/j.trd.2017.05.013

Fuels

Scenario based lifecycle analysis of greenhouse gas emissions from petroleum-derived transportation fuels in 2050

Cassandra Vivian Rosen
SM Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, DSpace @ MIT, June 2017
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/111224

Fuels

A Stochastic Techno-Economic Comparison of Alternative Jet Fuel Production Pathways

Seamus J. Bann
SM Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, DSpace @ MIT, June 2017
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/111238

Air Quality

Public Health Impacts of Excess NOx Emissions from Volkswagen Diesel Passenger Vehicles in Germany

Guillaume Chossière Robert Malina, Akshay Ashok, Irene Dedoussi, Sebastian Eastham, Raymond Speth, and Steven Barrett
Environmental Research Letters 12 034014, 2017
doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/aa5987

Fuels

Bioenergy and its use to mitigate the climate impact of aviation

Mark D. Staples
PhD Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, DSpace @ MIT, February 2017
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/108975

Fuels

The limits of bioenergy for mitigating global lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels

Mark D. Staples, Robert Malina, and Steven R. H. Barrett
Nature Energy 16202, 2017
doi: 10.1038/nenergy.2016.202

Fuels

The costs of production of alternative jet fuel: a harmonized stochastic assessment

Seamus J. Bann, Robert Malina, Mark D. Staples, Pooja Suresh, Matthew Pearlson, Wallace E. Tyner, James I. Hileman, Steven Barrett
Bioresource Technology 227, pp 179-189, 2017
doi: 10.1016/j.biortech.2016.12.032

Fuels

The Evolution of the Biofuel Science

Pooya Azadi, Robert Malina, Markus Kraft, and Steven R. H. Barrett
Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews 76, pp 1479-1484, 2017
doi: 10.1016/j.rser.2016.11.181

Policy & Economics & Operations

Public service obligations for air transport in the United States and Europe: Connectivity effects and value for money

Wittman MD, Allroggen F, Malina R
Transportation Research Part A 94, pp. 112-128, 2016
doi: 10.1016/j.tra.2016.08.029

Technology

Electro-aerodynamic thrust for fixed-wing aircraft propulsion

Christopher K. Gilmore
PhD Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, DSpace @ MIT, September 2016
http://.doi.org/10.2514/1.J056138

Air Quality

Exposure Track – The Impact of Mobile Device Based Mobility Patterns on Quantifying Population Exposure to Air Pollution

Marguerite Nyhan, Sebastian Grauwin, Rex Britter, Bruce Misstear, Aonghus McNabola, Francine Laden, Steven R. H. Barrett, and Carlo Ratti
Environmental Science and Technology 50 (17), pp 9671-9681, 2016
doi: 10.1021/acs.est.6b02385

Air Quality

Aviation-attributable ozone as a driver for changes in mortality related to air quality and skin cancer

Sebastian D. Eastham and Steven R. H. Barrett
Atmospheric Environment 144, pp 17-23, 2016
doi: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2016.08.040

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