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

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

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

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

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
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

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

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

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

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

Climate

Impact of Aviation on Climate: FAA’s Aviation Climate Change Research Initiative (ACCRI) Phase II

Guy P. Brasseur, Mohan Gupta, Bruce E. Anderson, Sathya Balasubramanian, Steven R. H. Barrett, David Duda, Gregg Fleming, Piers M. Forster, Jan Fuglestvedt, Andrew Gettelman, Rangasayi N. Halthore, S. Daniel Jacob, Mark Z. Jacobson, Arezoo Khodayari, Kuo-Nan Liou, Marianne T. Lund, Richard C. Miake-Lye, Patrick Minnis, Seth Olsen, Joyce E. Penner, Ronald Prinn, Ulrich Schumann, Henry B. Selkirk, Andrei Sokolov, Nadine Unger, Philip Wolfe, Hsi-Wu Wong, Donald W. Wuebbles, Bingqi Yi, Ping Yang and Cheng Zhou
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society April 2016, 561-583, 2016
doi: 10.1175/BAMS-D-13-00089.1

Climate
Noise
Policy & Economics & Operations

Aviation Environmental Policy and Issues of Timescale

Philip J. Wolfe
PhD Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, DSpace @ MIT, August 2015
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/101493

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
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

Atmospheric Modeling
Climate

Contrasting the direct radiative effect and direct radiative forcing of aerosols

C. L. Heald, D. A. Ridley, J. H. Kroll, S. R. H. Barrett, K. E. Cady-Pereira, M. J. Alvarado and C. D. Holmes
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 14, pp 5513-5527, 2014
doi: 10.5194/acp-14-5513-2014

Climate
Fuels

Economic and environmental benefits of higher-octane gasoline

Raymond L. Speth, Eric W. Chow, Robert Malina, Steven R. H. Barrett, John B. Heywood and William H. Green
Environmental Science and Technology 48 (12), pp 6561-6568, 2014
doi: 10.1021/es405557p

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
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

Climate
Fuels

Quantifying the climate impacts of albedo changes due to biofuel production: a comparison with biogeochemical effects

Fabio Caiazzo, Robert Malina, Mark D. Staples, Philip J. Wolfe, Steve H. L. Yim and Steven R. H. Barrett
Environmental Research Letters 9 (2), 2014
doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/9/2/024015

Atmospheric Modeling
Climate

Global budget and radiative forcing of black carbon aerosol: constraints from pole-to-pole (HIPPO) observations

Qiaoqiao Wang, Daniel J. Jacob, J. Ryan Spackman, Anne E. Perring, Joshua P. Schwarz, David W. Fahey, Yutaka Kondo, Nobuhiro Moteki, Eloise A. Marais, Cui Ge, Jun Wang and Steven R. H. Barrett
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 119 (1), pp 195-206, 2014
doi: 10.1002/2013JD020824

Atmospheric Modeling
Climate

Comparison of model estimates of the effects of aviation emissions on atmospheric ozone and methane

Seth C. Olsen, Guy P. Brasseur, Donald J. Wuebbles, Steven R. H. Barrett, Hongyan Dang, Sebastian D. Eastham, Mark Z. Jacobson, Arezoo Khodayari, Henry Selkirk, Andrei Sokolov and Nadine Unger
Geophysical Research Letters 40 (22), pp 6004-6009, 2013
doi: 10.1002/2013GL057660

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

Climate

Intercomparison of the capabilities of simplified climate models to project the effects of aviation CO2 on climate

Khodayari, A., Wuebbles, D.J., Olsen, S.C., Fuglestvedt, J.S., Berntsen, T., Lund, M.T., Waitz, I.A., Wolfe, P.J., Forster, P.M., Meinshausen, M., Lee, D.S., Lim, L.L.
Atmospheric Environment 75, pp.321-328, 2013
doi: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2013.03.055

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

Climate
Policy & Economics & Operations

Climate policy and the airline industry: Emissions trading and renewable jet fuel

Dominic A. T. McConnachie
SM Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, DSpace @ MIT, June 2012
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/72902

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

Climate

Metric for comparing lifetime average climate impact of aircraft

Schwartz Dallara E, Kroo IM, Waitz IA
AIAA Journal 49 (8), pp.1600-1613, 2011
doi: 10.2514/1.J050763

Climate

The impact of climate policy on US aviation

Niven Winchester, Christoph Wollersheim, Regina Clewlow, Nicolas C. Jost, Sergey Paltsev, John M. Reilly, Ian A. Waitz
A report on PARTNER project 31 submitted to the US Federal Aviation Administration
http://nehalem001.mit.edu/uploads/LAE_report_series/2011/LAE-2011-001-R.pdf

Air Quality
Climate
Policy & Economics & Operations

Estimating the climate and air quality benefits of aviation fuel and emissions reductions

Dorbian CS, Wolfe PJ, Waitz IA
Atmospheric Environment 45 (16), pp 2750-2759, 2011
doi: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2011.02.025

Air Quality
Climate
Noise

Assessing the environmental impacts of aircraft noise and emissions

Mahashabde, A., Wolfe, P., Ashok, A., Dorbian, C., He, Q., Fan, A., Lukachko, S., Mozdzanowska, A., Wollersheim, C., Barrett, S.R.H., Locke, M., Waitz, I.A.
Progress in Aerospace Sciences 47(1), pp 15-52, 2010
doi: 10.1016/j.paerosci.2010.04.003

Air Quality
Climate

Estimating the environmental benefits of aviation fuel and emissions reductions

Christopher S. Dorbian
SM Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, DSpace @ MIT, May 2010
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/59668

Air Quality
Climate
Noise

An assessment of environmental impacts of a NextGen implementation scenario and its implications on policy-making

Alice Fan
SM Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, DSpace @ MIT, February 2010
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/57881

Air Quality
Climate
Noise

Assessing environmental benefits and economic costs of aviation environmental policy measures

Anuja Mahashabde
PhD Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, DSpace @ MIT, September 2009
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/62967

Climate

Transport impacts on atmosphere and climate: Metrics

Fuglestvedt JS, Shine KP, Berntsen T, Lee DS, Sausen R, Stenke A, Skeie RB, Velders GJM, Waitz IA
Atmospheric Environment 44 (37), pp.4648-4677, 2010
doi: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2009.04.044

Climate

Assessing the impact of aviation on climate

Marais K, Lukachko SP, Jun M, Mahashabde A, Waitz IA
Meteorologische Zeitschrift 17 (2), pp.157-172, 2008
doi: 10.1127/0941-2948/2008/0274

MIT LAE

Publications

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

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

Quantifying and reducing the uncertainties in global contrail radiative forcing

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

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

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

Marginal climate and air quality costs of aviation emissions

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

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

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

Impact of biofuels on contrail warming

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

Impact of Aviation on Climate: FAA’s Aviation Climate Change Research Initiative (ACCRI) Phase II

Aviation Environmental Policy and Issues of Timescale

Non-CO2 Environmental Impacts of Transportation Fuel Use and Production

Quantifying the air quality-CO2 tradeoff potential for airports

Contrasting the direct radiative effect and direct radiative forcing of aerosols

Economic and environmental benefits of higher-octane gasoline

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

Near-airport distribution of the environmental costs of aviation

Quantifying the climate impacts of albedo changes due to biofuel production: a comparison with biogeochemical effects

Global budget and radiative forcing of black carbon aerosol: constraints from pole-to-pole (HIPPO) observations

Comparison of model estimates of the effects of aviation emissions on atmospheric ozone and methane

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

Intercomparison of the capabilities of simplified climate models to project the effects of aviation CO2 on climate

Benefit-cost assessment of aviation environmental policies

Climate policy and the airline industry: Emissions trading and renewable jet fuel

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

Environmental cost-benefit analysis of ultra low sulfur jet fuel

Metric for comparing lifetime average climate impact of aircraft

The impact of climate policy on US aviation

Estimating the climate and air quality benefits of aviation fuel and emissions reductions

Assessing the environmental impacts of aircraft noise and emissions

Estimating the environmental benefits of aviation fuel and emissions reductions

An assessment of environmental impacts of a NextGen implementation scenario and its implications on policy-making

Assessing environmental benefits and economic costs of aviation environmental policy measures

Transport impacts on atmosphere and climate: Metrics

Assessing the impact of aviation on climate