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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Air Quality

Costs of IQ Loss from Leaded Aviation Gasoline Emissions

Philip J. Wolfe, Amanda Giang, Akshay Ashok, Noelle E. Selin, and Steven R. H. Barrett
Environmental Science and Technology 50 (17), pp 9026-9033
doi: 10.1021/acs.est.6b02910

Air Quality
Atmospheric Modeling
Policy & Economics & Operations

Reducing the air quality impacts of aircraft activity at airports

Akshay Ashok
PhD Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, DSpace @ MIT, June 2016
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/105005

Air Quality

Adjoint-based computation of US nationwide ozone exposure isopleths

Akshay Ashok and Steven R. H. Barrett
Atmospheric Environment 133, 68-80, 2016
doi: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2016.03.025

Air Quality

Impact of the Volkswagen emissions control defeat device on US public health

Steven R. H. Barrett, Raymond L. Speth, Sebastian D. Eastham, Irene C. Dedoussi, Akshay Ashok, Robert Malina and David Keith
Environmental Research Letters 10, 114005, 2015
doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/10/11/114005

Air Quality
Atmospheric Modeling
Climate

Non-CO2 Environmental Impacts of Transportation Fuel Use and Production

Fabio Caiazzo
PhD Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, DSpace @ MIT, August 2015
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/101491

Air Quality
Atmospheric Modeling

Human Health Impacts of High Altitude Emissions

Sebastian D. Eastham
PhD Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, DSpace @ MIT, May 2015
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/98585

Air Quality
Policy & Economics & Operations

Global, regional and local health impacts of civil aviation emissions

Yim SHL, Lee GL, Lee IH, Allroggen F, Ashok A, Caiazzo F, Eastham SD, Malina R, Barrett SRH
Environmental Research Letters 10 (3), 2015
doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/10/3/034001

Air Quality

Air pollution and early deaths in the United States. Part II: Attribution of PM2.5 exposure to emissions species, time, location and sector

Dedoussi, I.C., Barrett, S.R.H
Atmospheric Environment 99, pp 610-617, 2014
doi: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2014.10.033

Air Quality
Emissions

Air pollution and early deaths in the United States Part II: Attribution of PM2 5 exposure to emissions species, time, location and sector

Irene C. Dedoussi and Steven R. H. Barrett
Atmospheric Environment 79, pp 610-617, 2014
doi: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2014.10.033

Air Quality
Climate

Quantifying the air quality-CO2 tradeoff potential for airports

Ashok, A., Dedoussi, I.C., Yim, S.H.L, Balakrishnan, H., Barrett, S.R.H.
Atmospheric Environment 99, 546-555, 2014
doi: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2014.10.024

Air Quality

Air Quality Sensitivity Matrices

Irene C. Dedoussi and Steven R.H. Barrett
A technical note by the MIT Laboratory for Aviation and the Environment
http://nehalem001.mit.edu/uploads/LAE_report_series/2014/LAE-2014-007-N.pdf

Air Quality

Air pollution and early deaths in the United States: Attribution of PM2.5 exposure to emissions species, time, location and sector

Irene C. Dedoussi
SM Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, DSpace @ MIT, May 2014
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/90658

Air Quality
Climate

Air quality and climate impacts of alternative bus technologies in Greater London

Chong, U., Yim, S.H.L., Barrett, S., Boies, A.M
Environmental Science and Technology 48 (8), pp 4613-4622, 2014
doi: 10.1021/es4055274

Air Quality

Assessing the impact of aviation environmental policies on public health

Brunelle-Yeung, E., Masek, T., Rojo, J.J., Levy, J.I., Arunachalam, S., Miller, S.M., Barrett, S.R.H., Kuhn, S.R., Waitz, I.A.
Transport Policy 34, pp 21-28, 2014
doi: 10.1016/j.tranpol.2014.02.015

Air Quality
Climate
Noise

Near-airport distribution of the environmental costs of aviation

Wolfe, P.J., Yim, S.H.L., Lee, G., Ashok, A., Barrett, S.R.H., Waitz, I.A.
Transport Policy 34, pp 102-108, 2014
doi: 10.1016/j.tranpol.2014.02.023

Air Quality

Rapid Dispersion Code (RDC)

Steve Yim, Steven R.H. Barrett
A technical note by the MIT Laboratory for Aviation and the Environment
http://nehalem001.mit.edu/uploads/LAE_report_series/2014/LAE-2014-001-N.pdf

Air Quality
Atmospheric Modeling

Development and evaluation of the unified tropospheric-stratospheric chemistry extension (UCX) for the global chemistry-transport model GEOS-Chem

Sebastian D. Eastham, Debra Weisenstein and Steven R. H. Barrett
Atmospheric Environment 89, pp 52-63, 2014
doi: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2014.02.001

Air Quality
Atmospheric Modeling
Climate

Temporal and spatial variability in the aviation NOx-related O3 impact

Christopher K. Gilmore, Steven R. H. Barrett, Jamin Koo and Qiqi Wang
Environmental Research Letters 8 (3), 2013
doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/8/3/034027

Air Quality
Emissions

Air pollution and early deaths in the United States Part I: Quantifying the impact of major sectors in 2005

Caiazzo F, Ashok A, Waitz IA, Yim SHL, Barrett SRH
Atmospheric Environment 79, pp 198-208, 2013
doi: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2013.05.081

Air Quality

Development of a response surface model of aviation’s air quality impacts in the United States

Ashok, A., Lee, I.H., Arunachalam, S., Waitz, I.A., Yim, S.H.L., Barrett, S.R.H
Atmospheric Environment 77, pp 445-452, 2013
doi: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2013.05.023

Air Quality

Impact of aircraft plume dynamics on airport local air quality

Barrett, S.R.H., Britter, R.E., Waitz, I.A.,
Atmospheric Environment 74, pp 247-258, 2013
doi: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2013.03.061

Air Quality

Spatial sensitivities of human health risk to aircraft emissions

Koo, J., Wang, Q., Henze, D.K., Waitz, I.A., Barrett, S.R.H.
Atmospheric Environment 71, pp 140-147, 2013
doi: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2013.01.025

Air Quality

Spatial sensitivities of human health risk to intercontinental and high-altitude pollution

Jamin Koo, Qiqi Wang, Daven K. Henze, Ian A. Waitz and Steven R. H. Barrett
Atmospheric Environment 71, pp 140-147, 2013
doi: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2013.01.025

Air Quality
Policy & Economics & Operations

Air quality and public health impacts of UK airports. Part II: Impacts and policy assessment

Yim, S., Stettler, M., Barrett, S.
Atmospheric Environment 67, pp 184-192, 2012
doi: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2012.10.017

Air Quality
Policy & Economics & Operations

Air quality impacts of UK airport capacity expansion

Steven Barrett, Steve Yim, Marc Stettler and Sebastian Eastham
A report by the Laboratory for Aviation and the Environment at MIT in collaboration with the Energy Efficient Cities Initiative at Cambridge University
http://nehalem001.mit.edu/wordpress2/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/LAE-2012-010-R-v1.pdf

Air Quality

The air quality and health impacts of aviation in Asia

In Hwan Lee
SM Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, DSpace @ MIT, September 2012
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/77113

Air Quality
Climate
Fuels

Benefit-cost assessment of aviation environmental policies

Christopher K. Gilmore
SM Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, DSpace @ MIT, June 2012
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/76166

Air Quality

Public health impacts of combustion sources in the United Kingdom

Yim S, Barrett SRH
Environmental Science and Technology 46(8), pp 4291-4296, 2012
doi: 10.1021/es2040416

Air Quality

Public health, climate and economic impacts of desulfurizing jet fuel

Barrett, S, Yim, S, Gilmore, C, Murray, L, Kuhn, S, Tai, A, Yantosca, R, Byun, S, Ngan, F, Li, X, Levy, J , Ashok, A, Koo, J, Wong, H, Dessens, O, Balasubramanian, S, Fleming, G, Pearlson, M, Wollersheim, C, Malina, R, Arunachalam, S, Binkowski, F, Leibensperger, EM, Jacob, D, Hileman, J, Waitz, IA
Environmental Science and Technology 46(8), pp 4275-4282, 2012
doi: 10.1021/es203325a

Air Quality
Climate
Noise

Aviation environmental policy effects on national- and regional- scale air quality, noise, and climate impacts

Philip J. Wolfe
SM Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, DSpace @ MIT, February 2012
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/71505

Air Quality
Climate
Fuels

Environmental cost-benefit analysis of ultra low sulfur jet fuel

Christopher K. Gilmore, Steven R. H. Barrett, Steve H. L. Yim, Lee T. Murray, Stephen R. Kuhn, Amos P. K. Tai, Robert M. Yantosca, Daewon W. Byun, Fong Ngan, Xiangshang Li, Jonathan I. Levy, Akshay Ashok, Jamin Koo, Hsin Min Wong, Olivier Dessens, Sathya Balasubramanian, Gregg G. Fleming, Matthew N. Pearlson, Christoph Wollersheim, Robert Malina,, Sarav Arunachalam, Francis S. Binkowski, Eric M. Leibensperger, Daniel J. Jacob, James I. Hileman and Ian A. Waitz
A report on PARTNER project 27 submitted to the US Federal Aviation Administration
http://nehalem001.mit.edu/uploads/LAE_report_series/2011/LAE-2011-006-R.pdf

Air Quality

Adjoint sensitivity analysis of the intercontinental impacts of aviation emissions on air quality and health

Jamin Koo
SM Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, DSpace @ MIT, September 2011
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/72936

Air Quality
Emissions

Air quality and public health impacts of UK airports Part I: Emissions

Marc E. J. Stettler, Sebastian Eastham and Steven R. H. Barrett
Atmospheric Environment 45 (31), pp. 5415-5424, 2011
doi: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2011.07.012

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