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

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Measuring exposure to pollution

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

Topic: Air Quality

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

https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paerosci.2010.04.003
Intercontinental influence of NOX and CO emissions on particulate matter air quality

Leibensperger, E.M., Mickley, L.J., Jacob, D.J., Barrett, S.R.H

Atmospheric Environment 45(19), pp 3318-3324, 2011

https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2011.02.023
Algorithms and analytical solutions for rapidly approximating long-term dispersion from line and area sources

Barrett, S.R.H, Britter, R.E.

Atmospheric Environment 43(20), pp 3249-3258, 2009

https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2009.03.032
Development of algorithms and approximations for rapid operational air quality modeling

Barrett, S.R.H., Britter, R.E.

Atmospheric Environment 42(34), pp 8105-8111, 2008

https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2008.06.020
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

http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/10/3/034001