Aircraft engine exhaust emissions and other airport-related contributions to ambient air pollution: A review

M Masiol, RM Harrison - Atmospheric Environment, 2014 - Elsevier
Civil aviation is fast-growing (about+ 5% every year), mainly driven by the developing
economies and globalisation. Its impact on the environment is heavily debated, particularly …

Cleaner burning aviation fuels can reduce contrail cloudiness

C Voigt, J Kleine, D Sauer, RH Moore… - … Earth & Environment, 2021 - nature.com
Contrail cirrus account for the major share of aviation's climate impact. Yet, the links between
jet fuel composition, contrail microphysics and climate impact remain unresolved. Here we …

Aircraft emissions, their plume-scale effects, and the spatio-temporal sensitivity of the atmospheric response: a review

KN Tait, MAH Khan, S Bullock, MH Lowenberg… - Aerospace, 2022 - mdpi.com
Non-CO2 aircraft emissions are responsible for the majority of aviation's climate impact,
however their precise effect is largely dependent on the environmental conditions of the …

Biofuel blending reduces particle emissions from aircraft engines at cruise conditions

RH Moore, KL Thornhill, B Weinzierl, D Sauer… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Aviation-related aerosol emissions contribute to the formation of contrail cirrus clouds that
can alter upper tropospheric radiation and water budgets, and therefore climate. The …

Transport impacts on atmosphere and climate: Aviation

DS Lee, G Pitari, V Grewe, K Gierens, JE Penner… - Atmospheric …, 2010 - Elsevier
Aviation alters the composition of the atmosphere globally and can thus drive climate
change and ozone depletion. The last major international assessment of these impacts was …

Mitigating the climate forcing of aircraft contrails by small-scale diversions and technology adoption

R Teoh, U Schumann, A Majumdar… - … Science & Technology, 2020 - ACS Publications
The climate forcing of contrails and induced-cirrus cloudiness is thought to be comparable to
the cumulative impacts of aviation CO2 emissions. This paper estimates the impact of …

Air quality and public health impacts of UK airports. Part I: Emissions

MEJ Stettler, S Eastham, SRH Barrett - Atmospheric environment, 2011 - Elsevier
The potential adverse human health and climate impacts of emissions from UK airports have
become a significant political issue, yet the emissions, air quality impacts and health impacts …

Anthropogenic, biomass burning, and volcanic emissions of black carbon, organic carbon, and SO2 from 1980 to 2010 for hindcast model experiments

T Diehl, A Heil, M Chin, X Pan, D Streets… - Atmospheric …, 2012 - acp.copernicus.org
Two historical emission inventories of black carbon (BC), primary organic carbon (OC), and
SO 2 emissions from land-based anthropogenic sources, ocean-going vessels, air traffic …

Airborne observations of the Eyjafjalla volcano ash cloud over Europe during air space closure in April and May 2010

U Schumann, B Weinzierl, O Reitebuch… - Atmospheric …, 2011 - acp.copernicus.org
Airborne lidar and in-situ measurements of aerosols and trace gases were performed in
volcanic ash plumes over Europe between Southern Germany and Iceland with the Falcon …

Impact of aviation on climate: FAA's aviation climate change research initiative (ACCRI) phase II

GP Brasseur, M Gupta, BE Anderson… - Bulletin of the …, 2016 - journals.ametsoc.org
Abstract Under the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) Aviation Climate Change
Research Initiative (ACCRI), non-CO 2 climatic impacts of commercial aviation are assessed …