Global, regional and local health impacts of civil aviation emissions

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Yim, Steve H L ^a   Lee, Gideon L ^a   Lee, In Hwan ^a   Allroggen, Florian ^a   Ashok, Akshay ^a   Caiazzo, Fabio ^a   Eastham, Sebastian D ^a   Malina, Robert ^a   Barrett, Steven R H ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

air quality; aviation; public health

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; AIRCRAFT ACCIDENTS; AIRPORTS; AVIATION; CIVIL AVIATION; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COSTS; DISPERSIONS; HEALTH; NATURAL GASOLINE PLANTS; POLLUTION; PUBLIC HEALTH;

AIR QUALITY IMPACTS; AIRCRAFT PLUMES; HUMAN HEALTH IMPACTS; LOCAL DISPERSION; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MULTI-SCALE MODELING; POPULATION EXPOSURE; RESPONSE FUNCTIONS;

AIR POLLUTION;

AIR QUALITY; AIRPORT; ATMOSPHERIC PLUME; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP; EMISSION; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; HEALTH IMPACT; MORTALITY; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; PUBLIC HEALTH;

EID: 84925434744     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/10/3/034001     Document Type: Article

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