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Local and regional air quality impacts of airport operations

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This paper discusses the air quality impacts of airport operations. It considers a range of pollutants and identifies emission sources both within and surrounding airports as being important in contributing to the air quality experienced at an airport. These sources include aircraft operations, landside traffic, airside traffic and fuel-handling operations. The paper considers air quality impacts over the last 30 years and draws examples from a variety of European airports. The paper concludes with a forecast of likely changes in emission sources and strengths at airports over the next 15 years.

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  1. Department of Environmental and Geographical Sciences, Manchester Metropolitan University, M1 5GD, Manchester, UK

    J. W. S. Longhurst, D. W. Raper & D. E. Conlan

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Drs James Longhurst, Beth Conlan and David Raper are air quality scientists specializing in the study of airport impacts upon air quality. They are based in the Atmospheric Research and Information Centre of Manchester Metropolitan University.

First submitted June 1994.

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Longhurst, J.W.S., Raper, D.W. & Conlan, D.E. Local and regional air quality impacts of airport operations. Environmentalist 16, 83–90 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01325099

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