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

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

MIT LAE

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