Publications

You can also view a reasonably up-to-date list of my publications on ResearcherID . My ResearcherID is G-6006-2012.

Papers Published

Matthes, S., Grewe, V., Dahlmann, K., Froemming, C., Irvine, E., Lim, L., Linke F., Luehrs, B., Owen, B., Shine, K., Stromatas, S., Yamashita, H., Yin, F. 2017 : A concept for multi-dimensional environmental assessment of aircraft trajectories. Aerospace. Accepted for publication July 2017.

Sigrun Matthes *, Volker Grewe, Katrin Dahlmann, Christine Frömming, Emma Irvine, Ling Lim, Florian Linke, Benjamin Lührs, Bethan Owen, Keith Shine, Stavros Stromatas, Hiroshi Yamashita, Feijia Yin

Grewe, V., Matthes, S., Brinkop, S., Gierens, K., Champougny, T., Fuglestvedt, J., Søvde, O. A., Irvine, E. A., Shine, K. P., 2017 : Feasibility of climate-optimised air traffic routing for trans-Atlantic flights. Environmental Research Letters, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/aa5ba0

Link to paper on ERL website

Irvine, E. A., Shine, K. P. and Stringer, M. A., 2016 : What are the implications of climate change for trans-Atlantic aircraft routing and flight time? Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, doi: 10.1016/j.trd.2016.04.014

Link to paper on TRD website

Irvine, E. A. and Shine, K. P., 2015 : Ice-supersaturation and the potential for contrail formation in a changing climate. Earth System Dynamics, 6, 555-568. doi: 10.5194/esd-6-555-2015

Link to paper on Earth System Dynamics website

Grewe, V., Champougny, T., Matthes, S., Frömming, C., Brinkop, S., Søvde, O. A., Irvine, E. A. and Halscheidt, L., 2014 : Reduction of the air traffic's contribution to climate change: A REACT4C case study, Atmospheric Environment, 94, 616-625. doi: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2014.05.059

Link to paper on Atmospheric Environment website

Irvine, E. A., B. J. Hoskins, K. P. Shine, 2014 : A simple framework for assessing the trade-off between the climate impact of aviation dioxide emissions and contrails for a single flight, Environmental Research Letters, 9, 064021. doi:10.1088/1748-9326/9/6/064021

Full text is freely available from the ERL website here

This research was described in a research highlight in Nature (Fly Father for Climate Benefits, Nature, 511, 128-129, doi:10.1038/511128d), and by several media outlets, including the BBC, the Times (print), the Daily Mail and Wired, and featured in the February 2015 issue of National Geographic.

Irvine, E. A., B. J. Hoskins, K. P. Shine, 2014 : A Lagrangian analysis of ice-supersaturated air over the North Atlantic, J. Geophys. Res. (Atmos.).,119,90-100. doi: 10.1002/2013JD020251

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Grewe, V., Frömming, C., Matthes, S., Brinkop, S., Ponater, M., Dietmüller, S., Jöckel, P., Garny, H., Tsati, E., Søvde, O. A., Fuglestvedt, J., Berntsen, T. K., Shine, K. P., Irvine, E. A., Champougny, T. and Hullah, P. 2014 : Aircraft routing with minimal climate impact: The REACT4C climate cost function modelling approach (V1.0), Geoscientific Model Development, 7, 175-201. doi:10.5194/gmd-7-175-2014

Link to paper on GMD website

Irvine, E. A., B. J. Hoskins, K. P. Shine, R. W. Lunnon and C. Fromming, 2013 : Characterising North Atlantic weather patterns for climate-optimal aircraft routing, Meteorol. Appl., 20, 80-93. doi:10.1002/met1291

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Irvine, E. A., B. J. Hoskins and K. P. Shine, 2012 : The dependence of contrail formation on the weather pattern and altitude in the North Atlantic, GRL, 39,12. doi:10.1029/2012GL051909

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Kristjánsson, J. E., I. Barstad, T. Aspelien, I. Føre, O. Hov, E. A. Irvine, T. Iversen, E. Kolstad, T. E. Nordeng, H. McInnes, R. Randriamampianina, O. Saetra, H. Olafsson, M. Shapiro and T. Spengler, 2011: The Norwegian IPY-THORPEX: Polar lows and Arctic fronts during the 2008 Andøya campaign, Bull. Am. Met. Soc., 92, 1443-1466. doi:10.1175/2011BAMS2901.1

Irvine, E. A., S. L. Gray and J. Methven, 2011: Targeted observations of a polar low in the Norwegian sea, Q. J. Roy. Meteorol. Soc., 137, 1688-1699. doi:10.1002/qj.914

Irvine, E. A., S. L. Gray, J. Methven and I. A. Renfrew, 2010: Forecast impact of targeted observations: sensitivity to observation error and proximity to steep orography, Mon. Wea. Rev., 139, 69-78. doi:10.1175/2010MWR3459.1

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Irvine, E. A., S. L. Gray and J. Methven, 2010: Can 4D-Var use dynamical information from targeted observations of a baroclinic structure?, Q. J. Roy. Meteorol. Soc.,136, 1379-1654. doi:10.1002/qj.673

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Irvine, E. A., S. L. Gray, J. Methven, I. A. Renfrew, K. Bovis and R. Swinbank, 2009: The impact of targeted observations made during the Greenland Flow Distortion Experiment, Q. J. Roy. Meteorol. Soc., 135, 2012-2029. doi:10.1002/qj.499

Renfrew, I. A., G. W. K. Moore, J. E. Kristjánsson, H. Ólafsson, S. L. Gray, G. N. Petersen, K.Bovis, P. R. A. Brown, I. Føre, T. Haine, C. Hay, E. A. Irvine, A. Lawrence, T. Ohigashi, S. Outten, R. S. Pickart, M. Shapiro, D. Sproson, R. Swinbank, A. Woolley and S. Zhang, 2008: The Greenland Flow Distortion experiment, Bull. Am. Met. Soc., 89, 1303-1320. doi:10.1175/2008BAMS2508.1