Assessing the Impact of Aircraft Arrival on Ambient Ultrafine Particle Number Concentrations in Near-Airport Communities in Boston, Massachusetts

Chung, Chloe S; Lane, Kevin; Black-Ingersoll, Flannery; Kolaczyk, Eric; Schollaert, Claire; Li, Sijia; Simon, Matthew C,; Levy, Jonathan I; United States. Federal Aviation Administration. Center of Excellence for Alternative Jet Fuels and Environment; Boston University. School of Public Health

doi:10.1016/j.envres.2023.115584

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Assessing the Impact of Aircraft Arrival on Ambient Ultrafine Particle Number Concentrations in Near-Airport Communities in Boston, Massachusetts

2023-03-01
By Chung, Chloe S ; Lane, Kevin ; Black-Ingersoll, Flannery ; ...

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Chung, Chloe S ; Lane, Kevin ; Black-Ingersoll, Flannery ; Kolaczyk, Eric ; Schollaert, Claire ; Li, Sijia ; Simon, Matthew C, ; Levy, Jonathan I Less -
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United States. Federal Aviation Administration. Center of Excellence for Alternative Jet Fuels and Environment ; Boston University. School of Public Health

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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Aviation Administration. Office of Environment and Energy
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Air Pollution Air Pollution Sources Airports Air Quality Environmental Impacts Health Hazards Landing Particulates Source Attribution Takeoff Ultrafine Particles
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j.envres.2023.115584
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2023.115584
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United States ; Boston (Massachusetts)

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Elsevier
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Aircraft emissions contribute to overall ambient air pollution, including ultrafine particle (UFP) concentrations. However, accurately ascertaining aviation contributions to UFP is challenging due to high spatiotemporal variability along with intermittent aviation emissions. The objective of this study was to evaluate the impact of arrival aircraft on particle number concentration (PNC), a proxy for UFP, across six study sites 3–17 km from a major arrival aircraft flight path into Boston Logan International Airport by utilizing real-time aircraft activity and meteorological data. Ambient PNC at all monitoring sites was similar at the median but had greater variation at the 95th and 99th percentiles with more than two-fold increases in PNC observed at sites closer to the airport. PNC was elevated during the hours with high aircraft activity with sites closest to the airport exhibiting stronger signals when downwind from the airport. Regression models indicated that the number of arrival aircraft per hour was associated with measured PNC at all six sites, with a maximum contribution of 50% of total PNC at a monitor 3 km from the airport during hours with arrival activity on the flight path of interest (26% across all hours). Our findings suggest strong but intermittent contributions from arrival aircraft to ambient PNC in communities near airports.
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This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Please cite this article as: Chloe S. Chung, Kevin J. Lane, Flannery Black-Ingersoll, Eric Kolaczyk, Claire Schollaert, Sijia Li, Matthew C. Simon, Jonathan I. Levy, Assessing the impact of aircraft arrival on ambient ultrafine particle number concentrations in near-airport communities in Boston, Massachusetts, Environmental Research, Volume 225, 2023, 115584, ISSN 0013-9351, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2023.115584.
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