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Steven R.H. Barrett

Steven R.H. Barrett

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
51
Citations
9304
World Ranking
4756
National Ranking
1758

Overview

Steven R.H. Barrett is affiliated with MIT in the United States, contributing extensively to the fields of Engineering and Environmental Science. Their research spans a number of related subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Aerospace Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, and Automotive Engineering.

Themes frequently addressed in their work include Advanced Aircraft Design and Technologies, Air Quality and Health Impacts, Vehicle emissions and performance, Air Traffic Management and Optimization, Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies, and Aerosol Filtration and Electrostatic Precipitation.

Steven Barrett has authored papers published in diverse scholarly venues. Some of the frequent publication outlets are:

  • AIAA Journal
  • Journal of Aircraft
  • Nature Communications
  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • Environmental Research Letters

Recent published papers highlight key areas of their research:

  • Premature mortality related to United States cross-state air pollution (2020, Nature)
  • Cost and emissions pathways towards net-zero climate impacts in aviation (2022, Nature Climate Change)
  • Air quality impacts of crop residue burning in India and mitigation alternatives (2022, Nature Communications)
  • Air pollution impacts of COVID-19-related containment measures (2021, Science Advances)
  • An Integrated Assessment of Emissions, Air Quality, and Public Health Impacts of China's Transition to Electric Vehicles (2022, Environmental Science & Technology)

The scientist regularly collaborates with other researchers in the field. Frequent co-authors include Raymond L. Speth, Sebastian D. Eastham, Prakash Prashanth, Florian Allroggen, and Jayant S. Sabnis.

Best Publications

  • Air pollution and early deaths in the United States. Part I: Quantifying the impact of major sectors in 2005

    Fabio Caiazzo;Akshay Ashok;Ian A. Waitz;Steve H.L. Yim

  • Technological, economic and environmental prospects of all-electric aircraft

    Andreas W. Schäfer;Steven R. H. Barrett;Khan Doyme;Lynnette M. Dray

  • Production of renewable jet fuel range alkanes and commodity chemicals from integrated catalytic processing of biomass

    Jesse Q. Bond;Aniruddha A. Upadhye;Hakan Olcay;Geoffrey A. Tompsett

  • Premature mortality related to United States cross-state air pollution.

    Irene C. Dedoussi;Irene C. Dedoussi;Sebastian D. Eastham;Erwan Monier;Erwan Monier;Steven R. H. Barrett

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

    M.E.J. Stettler;M.E.J. Stettler;S. Eastham;S.R.H. Barrett

  • Development and evaluation of the unified tropospheric–stratospheric chemistry extension (UCX) for the global chemistry-transport model GEOS-Chem

    Sebastian D. Eastham;Debra K. Weisenstein;Steven R.H. Barrett

  • Global budget and radiative forcing of black carbon aerosol: Constraints from pole-to-pole (HIPPO) observations across the Pacific

    Qiaoqiao Wang;Daniel James Jacob;J. Ryan Spackman;Anne E. Perring;Anne E. Perring

  • Aviation CO2 emissions reductions from the use of alternative jet fuels

    Mark D. Staples;Robert Malina;Robert Malina;Pooja Suresh;James I. Hileman

  • Global Mortality Attributable to Aircraft Cruise Emissions

    Steven R. H. Barrett;Rex E. Britter;Ian A. Waitz

  • Contrasting the direct radiative effect and direct radiative forcing of aerosols

    Colette L. Heald;David Andrew Ridley;Jesse Kroll;Steven R. H. Barrett

  • Technical and environmental assessment of all-electric 180-passenger commercial aircraft

    Albert R. Gnadt;Raymond L. Speth;Jayant S. Sabnis;Steven R.H. Barrett

  • The limits of bioenergy for mitigating global life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels

    Mark D. Staples;Robert Malina;Robert Malina;Steven R. H. Barrett

  • Global, regional and local health impacts of civil aviation emissions

    Steve Hung Lam Yim;Gideon L Lee;In Hwan Lee;Florian Allroggen

  • Assessing the environmental impacts of aircraft noise and emissions

    Anuja Mahashabde;Philip Wolfe;Akshay Ashok;Christopher Dorbian

  • "Exposure Track"-The Impact of Mobile-Device-Based Mobility Patterns on Quantifying Population Exposure to Air Pollution.

    Marguerite Nyhan;Marguerite Nyhan;Sebastian Grauwin;Rex Britter;Bruce Misstear

  • Rapid estimation of global civil aviation emissions with uncertainty quantification

    Nicholas W. Simone;Marc E.J. Stettler;Marc E.J. Stettler;Steven R.H. Barrett

  • Impact of aviation on climate: FAA’s Aviation Climate Change Research Initiative (ACCRI) Phase II

    Guy P. Brasseur;Mohan Gupta;Bruce E. Anderson;Sathya Balasubramanian

  • Impact of the Volkswagen emissions control defeat device on US public health

    Steven R H Barrett;Raymond L Speth;Sebastian D Eastham;Irene C Dedoussi

  • Air quality and public health impacts of UK airports. Part II: Impacts and policy assessment

    Steve H.L. Yim;Marc E.J. Stettler;Steven R.H. Barrett

  • Predicting vehicular emissions in high spatial resolution using pervasively measured transportation data and microscopic emissions model

    Marguerite Nyhan;Stanislav Sobolevsky;Chaogui Kang;Prudence Robinson

  • “Exposure Track”—The Impact of Mobile-Device-Based Mobility Patterns on Quantifying Population Exposure to Air Pollution

    Bruce Misstear;Aonghus McNabola;Francine Laden;Rex E Britter

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert M. Malina
Robert M. Malina The University of Texas at Austin
Steve H.L. Yim
Steve H.L. Yim Nanyang Technological University
James I. Hileman
James I. Hileman Federal Aviation Administration
Nadine Unger
Nadine Unger University of Exeter
Mark Z. Jacobson
Mark Z. Jacobson Stanford University
Daniel J. Jacob
Daniel J. Jacob Harvard University
David W. Keith
David W. Keith University of Chicago
Andrew Gettelman
Andrew Gettelman Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

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