Study quantifies premature deaths in Europe resulting from Volkswagen’s excess emissions

In September 2015, the German Volkswagen Group, the world’s largest car producer, admitted to having installed…
Piston engine aircraft pose a health risk

They may seem innocuous enough, those small planes used for weekend getaways, flight training, small freight…
Measuring exposure to pollution

What’s the best way to measure human exposure to urban pollution? Typically, cities do so by…

Topic: Air Quality

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
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

http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aaad2e
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

https://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab4942
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

http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-1983-8
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
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
Development of techniques for rapidly assessing the local air quality impacts of airports

Gideon Lee

SM Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, DSpace @ MIT, September 2012

http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/77112
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
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 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

Study quantifies premature deaths in Europe resulting from Volkswagen’s excess emissions

Piston engine aircraft pose a health risk

Measuring exposure to pollution

Topic: Air Quality

Reducing the air quality impacts of aircraft activity at airports

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

Marginal climate and air quality costs of aviation emissions

Premature mortality related to United States cross-state air pollution

Air Quality Sensitivity Matrices

The air quality and health impacts of aviation in Asia

Development of techniques for rapidly assessing the local air quality impacts of airports

Air quality impacts of UK airport capacity expansion

Rapid Dispersion Code (RDC)

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