Topic: 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Quantifying and reducing the uncertainties in global contrail radiative forcing

    Akshak Agarwal
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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