Project Number: 019
Category: Emissions
The objective of this research is to continue developing tools that will enable quantification of National Airspace System-wide and airshed-specific air quality and health impacts due to aircraft emissions in select regions of the country. It also will provide support to the FAA for processing high-fidelity weather in the Aviation Environmental Design Tool.
Last Updated 7/19/2023
Outcomes
- NAS-wide and Airport-specific air quality impacts
- Focus on O3, PM2.5 and UFP
- Impact of coupled meteorology-chemistry processes on air quality impacts
- Support for FAA/Volpe in processing High-fidelity weather for use in AEDT
Industry Partners
- Los Angeles World Authority (LAWA)
- North American Insulation Manufacturers Association (NAIMA)
- National Aviation University (NAU), Kiev, Ukraine
Presentations
- Arunachalam, S., (2017). Ultrafine Particles and Aviation. Aircraft Noise and Emissions Reduction Symposium, organized by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), Alexandria, VA, April 2017.
- Boone, S. S. Penn, J. Levy and S. Arunachalam (2016). Calculation of sensitivity coefficients for individual airport emissions in the continental United States using CMAQ-DDM3D/PM, Air Pollution Modeling and its Application XXIV, D.G. Steyn and N Chaumerliac (eds.), ISBN: 978-3-319-24478-5 (Online), 1007/978-3-319-24478-5_41, Springer Proceedings in Complexity, pp. 251 – 257.
- Arunachalam, S., (2016). Air Quality Impacts from Aviation Emissions, Invited Talk at the FORUM-AE Air Quality Impacts Workshop, Netherlands Aerospace Center (NLR), Amsterdam, Netherlands, April 2016.
- Underhill LJ, Penn SL, Boone S, Arunachalam S, Levy JI (2016). Modeling the health benefits of local and regional emission control policies in the US aviation sector, Presented at the 26th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Exposure Science, Utrecht, Netherlands, October 2016.
- Arunachalam, S., A. Valencia, R. A. Silva, J. Huang, M. Omary and L.P. Vennam (2016). A Global-scale Multi-resolution Study of Surface Air Quality Impacts from Commercial Aircraft Emissions, Presented at the 35th International Technical Meeting on Air Pollution Modeling and its Applications, Crete, Greece, October 2016.
- Huang, J., L.P. Vennam, F.S. Binkowski, B. Murphy and S. Arunachalam (2016). Impacts on Ambient Particulate Matter by Changing Particle Size Distribution from Emissions Using the Community Air Quality Model (CMAQ): A Case Study of Commercial Aircraft emissions from Landing and Take-off, Presented at the 14th Annual CMAS Conference, Chapel Hill, NC, October 2016.
- Moniruzzaman, C. G., J.H. Bowden, S. Arunachalam (2016). Effects of aerosol feedback on aircraft-attributable surface O3 and PM5 concentrations using the two-way coupled WRF-CMAQ modeling system. Presented at the 14th Annual CMAS Conference, Chapel Hill, NC, October 2016.
- Arunachalam, S., (2015). Aviation Impacts on Air Quality, Invited Talk at the ICAO Committee on Aviation Environmental Protection’s Impacts and Sciences Group” Washington, D.C., February 2015.
- Arunachalam, S. Air Quality Impacts from Aviation Emissions – A Closer Look at PM5, Presented at the Aircraft Noise and Emissions Reduction Symposium (ANERS), La Rochelle, France, September 22 – 24, 2015.
- Boone, S. S. Penn, J. Levy and S. Arunachalam (2015). Calculation of sensitivity coefficients for individual airport emissions in the continental United States using CMAQ-DDM3D/PM, Presented at the 34th International Technical Meeting on Air Pollution, Montpellier, France, May 2015
- Arunachalam, S., S. Boone, J. Bowden and M. Omary (2015). Sensitivity Analyses Approaches for Assessing Air Quality Impacts of Individual Airport Emissions, Presented at the 4th Conference of the Transportation, Atmosphere and Climate, Bad Kohlgrub, Germany, June 2015.
- Vennam, L.P., S. Arunachalam, K. Talgo, M. Omary, J. Xing, R. Mathur and W. Vizuete (2015). A Multi-scale modeling study to assess impacts of full-flight aircraft emissions on upper troposphere and surface air quality, Presented at the 14th Annual CMAS Conference, Chapel Hill, NC, October 5 – 7, 2015.
- Arunachalam, S., (2014). Multi-scale Modeling of the Air Quality and Health Impacts of Aviation Emissions for Current and Future Scenarios, Invited Talk at the Universidad de La Salle, Bogota, Colombia, June 2014.
- Boone, S., & Arunachalam, S. (2014). Calculation of sensitivity coefficients for individual airport emissions in the continental U.S. using CMAQ-DDM/PM. In ACM International Conference Proceeding Series. [10] Association for Computing Machinery. 1145/2616498.2616504
- Vennam, L., S. Arunachalam, W. Vizuete, B.H. Baek, M. Omary, J. Bowden and S. Olsen (2014). Modeled Trends in Impacts of Landing and Takeoff Aircraft Emissions on Surface Air Quality in U.S for 2005, 2010 and 2018, Presented at the Fall Annual Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA, Dec 15 – 19, 2014.
- Penn, S. S. Arunachalam, S. Boone, E. Kamai and J. Levy (2014). Modeling variability in air pollution-related health damages from individual airport emissions, Presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Society of Exposure Sciences, Cincinnati, OH, October 2014.
- Vennam, L.P., S. Arunachalam, J.H. Bowden, B.H. Baek, M. Omary, W. Vizuete and S. Olsen (2014). Modeled Trends in Impacts of Landing and Takeoff Aircraft Emissions on Surface Air-Quality in U.S for 2005, 2010 and 2018. Presented at the 13th Annual CMAS Conference, Chapel Hill, NC, October 27 – 29, 2014.
- Boone, S., S. Arunachalam, S. Penn and J. Levy (2014). Sensitivity analysis of individual airport emissions in the U.S. using CMAQ DDM-3D, Presented at the 13th Annual CMAS Conference, Chapel Hill, NC, October 27 – 29, 2014.
- Woody, M., S. Arunachalam, J.J. West and H.-W. Wong (2014). Multiscale Predictions of Aircraft-Attributable PM2.5 Modeled Using CMAQ-APT enhanced with an Aircraft-Specific 1-D Model for U.S. Airports, Presented at the 13th Annual CMAS Conference, Chapel Hill, NC, October 27 – 29, 2014.
- Arunachalam, S., M. Woody, J. Rissman, F. S. Binkowski, H.-W. Wong, S. Jathar and A. Robinson (2013). An Enhanced Sub-grid Scale Approach to Characterize Air Quality Impacts of Aircraft Emissions, Air Pollution Modeling and its Application XXII, D. G. Steyn, P.J.H. Builtjes, R.M.A. Timmermans (eds.), ISBN: 978-94-007-5576-5 (Print) 978-94-007-5577-2 (Online), Springer, The Netherlands, 2013.
Annual Reports
- 2015 Annual Report
- 2016 Annual Report
- 2017 Annual Report
- 2018 Annual Report
- 2019 Annual Report
- 2020 Annual Report
- 2021 Annual Report
- 2022 Annual Report
- 2023 Annual Report
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Publications
- Incorporating Meander to Account for the Impact of Low Winds in Area Source Modeling; AERMOD as a Case Study
- Accounting for Plume Rise of Aircraft Emissions and Shoreline Meteorology Enhances AERMOD’s Description of Concentrations Measured Around Los Angeles Airport
- Modeling the air quality impact of aircraft emissions: is area or volume the appropriate source characterization in AERMOD?
- Accounting for Plume Rise of Aircraft Emissions in AERMOD
- Effect of Atmospheric Stability on Modeling Air Quality in and Around a Major Airport
- Evaluating AERMOD with Measurements from a Major U.S. Airport Located on a Shoreline
- Air Quality and Health-related Impacts of Traditional and Alternate Jet Fuels from Airport Aircraft Operations in the U.S.
- Quantifying the Impact of Transportation Sector Emissions on Regional Air Quality
- Assessing the Importance of Nonlinearity for Aircraft Emissions' Impact on O3 and PM2.5
- Aircraft Landing and Takeoff Emission Impacts on Surface O3 and PM2.5 Through Aerosol Direct Feedback Effects Estimated by the Coupled WRF-CMAQ Model
- Tracer study to estimate the transport of cruise altitude aviation emissions in Northern Hemisphere
- Using Higher Order Sensitivity Approaches to Assess Aircraft Emissions Impacts on O3 and PM2.5
- Modeled Full-flight Aircraft Emissions Impacts on Air Quality and Their Sensitivity to Grid Resolution
- Effects of aerosol feedback on aircraft-attributable surface O3 and PM2. 5 concentrations using the two-way coupled WRF-CMAQ modeling system
- Impacts on Ambient Particulate Matter by Changing Particle Size Distribution from Emissions Using the Community Air Quality Model (CMAQ): A Case Study of Commercial Aircraft emissions from Landing and Take-off
- Multiscale Predictions of Aviation-attributable PM2.5 for U.S. Airports Modeled Using CMAQ with Plume-in-grid and an Aircraft-specific 1-D Emission Model
- Calculation of sensitivity coefficients for individual airport emissions in the continental United States using CMAQ-DDM3D/PM
- Evaluation of Model-predicted Hazardous Air Pollutants (HAPs) Near a Mid-sized U.S. airport
- Estimates of Non-traditional Secondary Organic Aerosols from Aircraft SVOC and IVOC Emissions using CMAQ
- A Comparison Between Monitoring and Dispersion Modeling Approaches to Assess the Impact of Aviation on Concentrations of Black Carbon and Nitrogen Oxides at Los Angeles International Airport
- Calculation of Sensitivity Coefficients Using CMAQ-DDM for Individual Airport Emissions in the United States
- Calculation of Sensitivity Coefficients for Individual Airport Emissions in the Continental U.S. using CMAQ-DDM/PM
- Methods for Assessing the Impacts of Aviation Environmental Policies on Public Health
- A Multiscale Modeling Study to Assess Impacts of Full-Flight Aircraft Emissions on Upper Troposphere and Surface Air Quality
- Equity and Health Impacts of Aircraft Emissions at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport
- A Plume-in-grid Approach to Characterize Air Quality Impacts of Aircraft Emissions at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport
- Secondary Organic Aerosol Produced from Aircraft Emissions at the Atlanta Airport: An Advanced Diagnostic Investigation Using Process Analysis
- Development of a Response Surface Model of Aviation’s Air Quality Impacts in the United States
- An Enhanced Sub-grid Scale Approach to Characterize Air Quality Impacts of Aircraft Emissions