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

Emissions

Predicting vehicular emissions in high spatial resolution using pervasively measured transportation data and microscopic emissions model

Marguerite Nyhan, Stanislav Sobolevsky, Chaogui Kang, Prudence Robinson, Andrea Corti, Michael Szell, David Streets, Zifeng Lu, Rex Britter, Steven R. H. Barrett, and Carlo Ratti
Atmospheric Environment 140, pp 352-363, 2016
doi: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2016.06.018

Fuels

Environmental and economic assessment of transportation fuels from municipal solid waste

Pooja Suresh
SM Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, DSpace @ MIT, June 2016
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/105567

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

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

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

Noise

Costs and benefits of US aviation noise land-use policies

Philip J. Wolfe, Robert Malina, Steven R. H. Barrett and Ian A. Waitz
Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment 44, pp 147-156, 2016
doi: 10.1016/j.trd.2016.02.010

Radiation dose to the global flying population

Luis E. Alvarez, Sebastian D. Eastham and Steven R. H. Barrett
Journal of Radiological Protection 36 (1), pp 93-103, 2016
doi: 10.1088/0952-4746/36/1/93

Atmospheric Modeling

Radiation dose to the global flying population

Luis Alvarez
SM Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, DSpace @ MIT, January 2016
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/103443

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

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

Policy & Economics & Operations

How air transport connects the world: A new metric of air connectivity and its evolution between 1990 and 2012

Allroggen F, Wittman MD, Malina R
Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review 80, pp.184-201, 2015
doi: 10.1016/j.tre.2015.06.001

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

Policy & Economics & Operations

Serving vs. settling: What drives the establishment of Low Cost Carriers’ foreign bases

Klein K, Albers S, Allroggen F, Malina R
Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice 79, pp.17-30, 2015
doi: 10.1016/j.tra.2015.03.021

Emissions
Fuels

The impact of advanced biofuels on aviation emissions and operations in the United States

Niven Winchester, Robert Malina, Mark D. Staples and Steven R. H. Barrett
Energy Economics 49, pp 482-491, 2015
doi: 10.1016/j.eneco.2015.03.024

Emissions
Fuels
Policy & Economics & Operations

The impact of advanced biofuels on aviation emissions and operations in the U.S.

N Winchester, R Malina, M Staples, Barrett S
Energy Economics 49, pp 482-91, 2015
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2015.03.024

Fuels

Environmental and economic tradeoffs of using corn stover for liquid fuels and power production

Parthsarathi Trivedi, Robert Malina and Steven R. H. Barrett
Energy and Environmental Science 8, pp 1428-1437
doi: 10.1039/c5ee00153f

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

Technology

Electrohydrodynamic thrust density using positive corona-induced ionic winds for in-atmosphere propulsion

Gilmore, C.K., Barrett, S.R.H.
Proceedings of the Royal Society A 471, 2015
doi: 10.1098/rspa.2014.0912

Fuels

Carbon, climate, and economic breakeven times for biofuel from woody biomass from managed forests

Mitch R. Withers, Robert Malina and Steven R. H. Barrett
Ecological Economics 112, pp 45-52, 2015
doi: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2015.02.004

Fuels

Biomass logistics analysis for large scale biofuel production: case study of loblolly pine and switchgrass

Xiaoming Lu, Mitch R. Withers, Navid Seifkar, Randall P. Field, Steven R. H. Barrett and Howard J. Herzog
Bioresource Technology 183, pp 1-9, 2015
doi: 10.1016/j.biortech.2015.02.032

Emissions
Fuels

Black carbon emissions reductions from combustion of alternative jet fuels

Raymond L. Speth, Carolina Rojo, Robert Malina and Steven R. H. Barrett
Atmospheric Environment 105, pp 37-42, 2015
doi: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2015.01.040

Fuels

Energy return on investment for alternative jet fuels

Parthsarathi Trivedi, Hakan Olcay, Mark D. Staples, Mitch R. Withers, Robert Malina and Steven R. H. Barrett
Applied Energy 141, pp 167-174, 2015
doi: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2014.12.016

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

Atmospheric Modeling

Application of the complex step method to chemistry-transport modeling

Constantin, B.V., Barrett, S.R.H
Atmospheric Environment 99, pp 457-465, 2014
doi: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2014.10.017

Fuels

Microalgae-derived HEFA Jet Fuel: Environmental and Economic Impacts of Scaled/Integrated Growth Facilities and Global Production Potential

Jacob L. Ames
SM Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, DSpace @ MIT, October 2014
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/97363

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

Fuels

Environmental and economic assessment of alternative transportation fuels

Mitch Russell Withers
SM Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, DSpace @ MIT, June 2014
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/90808

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

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

Fuels

Environmental and economic assessment of producing hydroprocessed renewable jet fuel and diesel from waste oils and animal fats

Gonca Seber, Robert Malina, Matthew N. Pearlson, Hakan O. Olcay, James I. Hileman and Steven R. H. Barrett
Biomass and Bioenergy 67, pp 108-118, 2014
doi: 10.1016/j.biombioe.2014.04.024

Atmospheric Modeling

Application of the complex step method to chemistry-transport modeling – GEOS-Chem XPLEX

Bogdan V. Constantin 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-2014-006-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

Atmospheric Modeling

Application of the complex step method to chemistry-transport modeling

Bogdan V. Constantin
SM Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, DSpace @ MIT, May 2014
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/90656

Fuels

Environmental and economic tradeoffs of feedstock usage for liquid fuels and power production

Parthsarathi Trivedi
SM Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, DSpace @ MIT, May 2014
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/90805

Policy & Economics & Operations

The impact of hubbing concentration on flight delays within airline networks. An empirical analysis of the U.S. domestic market

Baumgarten P, Malina R, Lange A
Transportation Research Part E 66, pp 103–114, 2014
doi: 10.1016/j.tre.2014.03.007

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

Noise

Estimation of the global impact of aviation-related noise using an income-based approach

He Q, Wollersheim C, Locke M, Waitz IA
Transport Policy 34, pp.85-101, 2014
doi: 10.1016/j.tranpol.2014.02.020

Policy & Economics & Operations

Uncertainty assessment of complex models with application to aviation environmental policy-making

Allaire D, Willcox K
Transport Policy 34, pp 109-113, 2014
doi: 10.1016/j.tranpol.2014.02.022

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

Fuels

Lifecycle greenhouse gas footprint and minimum selling price of renewable diesel and jet fuel from advanced fermentation production technologies

Mark D. Staples, Robert Malina, Hakan Olcay, Matthew N. Pearlson, James I. Hileman, Adam Boies and Steven R. H. Barrett
Energy and Environmental Science 7, pp 1545-1554
doi: 10.1039/C3EE43655A

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

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

Fuels

Production of renewable jet fuel range alkanes and commodity chemicals from integrated catalytic processing of biomass

Jesse Q. Bond, Aniruddha A. Upadhye, Hakan Olcay, Geoffrey A. Tompsett, Jungho Jae, Rong Xing, David Martin Alonso, Dong Wang, Taiying Zhang, Rajeev Kumar, Andrew Foster, S. Murat Sen, Christos T. Maravelias, Robert Malina, Steven R. H. Barrett, Raul Lobo, Charles E. Wyman, James A. Dumesic and George W. Huber
Energy and Environmental Science 7, pp 1500-1523, 2014
doi: 10.1039/C3EE43846E

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

Policy & Economics & Operations
Technology

Economic and environmental assessment of liquefied natural gas as a supplemental aircraft fuel

Withers, M., Malina, R., Gilmore, C., Gibbs, J., Trigg, C., Wolfe, P., Trivedi, P., Barrett, S.,
Progress in Aerospace Sciences 66, pp 17-36, 2014
doi: 10.1016/j.paerosci.2013.12.002

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