Aircraft emissions of methane and nitrous oxide during the alternative aviation fuel experiment

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 45, Issue 16, 2011, Pages 7075-7082

  Santoni, Gregory W ^a   Lee, Ben H ^a   Wood, Ezra C ^b,c   Herndon, Scott C ^b   Miake Lye, Richard C ^b   Wofsy, Steven C ^a   McManus, J Barry ^b   Nelson, David D ^b   Zahniser, Mark S ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AERODYNE RESEARCH INC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT EMISSIONS; AMBIENT CONCENTRATIONS; AVIATION FUEL; EARTH'S RADIATIVE BALANCE; EMISSION FACTORS; EMISSION INDEX; EMISSION RATIO; ENGINE EXHAUST; ENGINE THRUST; FISCHER-TROPSCH FUELS; FUEL COMBUSTION; FUEL FLOW; LOW-THRUST ENGINES; NITROUS OXIDE; PREDICTED GROWTH; THRUST LEVELS;

AIRCRAFT; AIRCRAFT ENGINES; ALTERNATIVE FUELS; ANESTHETICS; EXHAUST SYSTEMS (ENGINE); EXPERIMENTS; METHANE; NASA; NITROGEN OXIDES; SYNTHETIC FUELS; TAXICABS;

AVIATION;

FUEL; METHANE; NITROUS OXIDE;

AIRCRAFT EMISSION; ALTERNATIVE FUEL; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; COMBUSTION; METHANE; NITROUS OXIDE; PREDICTION;

AIR POLLUTION; AIRCRAFT; ARTICLE; AVIATION; COMBUSTION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); EXHAUST GAS; MEASUREMENT; METHANE EMISSION; NITROUS OXIDE EMISSION;

AIRCRAFT; CARBON DIOXIDE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMIDITY; HYDROCARBONS; METHANE; NITROUS OXIDE; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; VEHICLE EMISSIONS;

EID: 80051738422     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es200897h     Document Type: Article

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