Blar i NILU Brage på forfatter "Breivik, Knut"
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Import, use, and emissions of PCBs in Switzerland from 1930 to 2100
Glüge, Juliane; Steinlin, Christine; Schalles, Simone; Wegmann, Lukas; Josef, Tremp; Breivik, Knut; Hungerbühler, Konrad; Bogdal, Christian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are persistent organic compounds that are ubiquitously found in the environment. Their use and manufacture were restricted or banned in many countries in the 1970±1980s, however, they still ... -
Increasing Trends of Legacy and Emerging Organic Contaminants in a Dated Sediment Core From East-Africa
Nipen, Maja; Vogt, Rolf David; Bohlin-Nizzetto, Pernilla; Borgå, Katrine; Mwakalapa, Eliezer Brown; Borgen, Anders; Schlabach, Martin; Christensen, Guttorm N; Mmochi, Aviti John; Breivik, Knut (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Temporal trends of industrial organic contaminants can show how environmental burdens respond to changes in production, regulation, and other anthropogenic and environmental factors. Numerous studies have documented such ... -
Introducing a nested multimedia fate and transport model for organic contaminants (NEM)
Breivik, Knut; Eckhardt, Sabine; McLachlan, Michael S; Wania, Frank (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Some organic contaminants, including the persistent organic pollutants (POPs), have achieved global distribution through long range atmospheric transport (LRAT). Regulatory efforts, monitoring programs and modelling studies ... -
Introduction to the European Monitoring and Evaluation Programme (EMEP) and observed atmospheric composition change during 1972-2009
Tørseth, Kjetil; Aas, Wenche; Breivik, Knut; Fjæraa, Ann Mari; Fiebig, Markus; Hjellbrekke, Anne-Gunn; Myhre, Cathrine Lund; Solberg, Sverre; Yttri, Karl Espen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)European scale harmonized monitoring of atmospheric composition was initiated in the early 1970s, and the activity has generated a comprehensive dataset (available at http://www.emep.int) which allows the evaluation of ... -
Investigating Intergenerational Differences in Human PCB Exposure due to Variable Emissions and Reproductive Behaviors
Quinn, Cristina L; Frank, Wania; Gertje, Czub; Breivik, Knut (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2011)Background: Reproductive behaviors (such as age of childbearing, parity, and breastfeeding prevalence) have changed over the same historical time period as PCB emissions and may produce intergenerational differences in ... -
Legacy and emerging flame retardants (FRs) in the urban atmosphere of Pakistan: Diurnal variations, gas-particle partitioning and human health exposure
Syed, Jabir Hussain; Iqbal, Mehreen; Breivik, Knut; Chaudhry, Muhammad Jamshed Iqbal; Shahnawaz, Muhammad; Abbas, Zaigham; Nasir, Jawad; Rizvi, Syed Hussain Haider; Taqi, Malik Mumtaz Hussain; Li, Jun; Zhang, Gan (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020) -
Levels, spatial distribution and sources of atmospheric OCPs, PCBs and PBDEs in a Svalbard - Sao Tomé transect
Ratola, Nuno; Graf, Carola; Montesinos, Sonia; Garrido, Adrián; Jiménez-Guerrero, Pedro; Breivik, Knut; Lacorte, Silvia; Alves, Arminda; Sweetman, Andrew J; Jones, Kevin C (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014) -
Long-range transport of industrial-use organic contaminants with e-waste: Possible implications for emissions, transport and environmental exposure
Breivik, Knut; Armitage, James M; Wania, Frank (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014) -
Long-term monitoring of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) at the Norwegian Troll station in Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica
Kallenborn, Roland; Breivik, Knut; Eckhardt, Sabine; Lunder, Chris Rene; Manø, Stein; Schlabach, Martin; Stohl, Andreas (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013) -
Long-Term Temporal Trends of Polychlorinated Biphenyls and Their Controlling Sources in China
Zhao, Shizhen; Breivik, Knut; Liu, Guorui; Zheng, Minghui; Jones, Kevin C; Sweetman, Andrew J (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are industrial organic contaminants identified as persistent, bioaccumulative, toxic (PBT) and subject to long-range transport (LRT) with global scale significance. This study focuses on a ... -
Low concentrations of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in air at Cape Verde
Nøst, Therese Haugdahl; Halse, Anne Karine; Schlabach, Martin; Bäcklund, Are; Eckhardt, Sabine; Breivik, Knut (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Ambient air is a core medium for monitoring of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) under the Stockholm Convention and is used in studies of global transports of POPs and their atmospheric sources and source regions. Still, ... -
Main sources controlling atmospheric burdens of persistent organic pollutants on a national scale
Halvorsen, Helene Lunder; Bohlin-Nizzetto, Pernilla; Eckhardt, Sabine; Gusev, Alexey; Krogseth, Ingjerd Sunde; Möckel, Claudia; Shatalov, Victor; Skogeng, Lovise Pedersen; Breivik, Knut (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)National long-term monitoring programs on persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in background air have traditionally relied on active air sampling techniques. Due to limited spatial coverage of active air samplers, questions ... -
Mercury in air and soil on an urban-rural transect in East Africa
Nipen, Maja; Jørgensen, Susanne Jøntvedt; Bohlin-Nizzetto, Pernilla; Borgå, Katrine; Breivik, Knut; Mmochi, Aviti J; Mwakalapa, Eliezer; Quant, M. Isabel; Schlabach, Martin; Vogt, Rolf David; Wania, Frank (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)There are large knowledge gaps concerning concentrations, sources, emissions, and spatial trends of mercury (Hg) in the atmosphere in developing regions of the Southern Hemisphere, particularly in urban areas. Filling these ... -
Model-based evaluation of the use of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons molecular diagnostic ratios as a source identification tool
Katsoyiannis, Athanasios; Breivik, Knut (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) molecular diagnostic ratios (MDRs) are unitless concentration ratios of pair-PAHs with the same molecular weight (MW); MDRs have long been used as a tool for PAHs source identification ... -
Modeling the Time-Variant Dietary Exposure of PCBs in China over the Period 1930 to 2100
Zhao, Shizhen; Breivik, Knut; Jones, Kevin C; Sweetman, Andrew J (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)This study aimed for the first time to reconstruct historical exposure profiles for PCBs to the Chinese population, by examining the combined effect of changing temporal emissions and dietary transition. A long-term ... -
Modelling PCB-153 in northern ecosystems across time, space, and species using the nested exposure model
Krogseth, Ingjerd Sunde; Breivik, Knut; Frantzen, Sylvia; Nilsen, Bente Merete; Eckhardt, Sabine; Nøst, Therese Haugdahl; Wania, Frank (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)There is concern over possible effects on ecosystems and humans from exposure to persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and chemicals with similar properties. The main objective of this study was to develop, evaluate, and ... -
Multimedia models and observations in concert. A powerful tool to understand and manage organic contaminants
Krogseth, Ingjerd Sunde; Breivik, Knut (NILU OR;22/2014, Research report, 2014)This report summarizes results from a project funded by the Research Council of Norway (196191/S30). The overall goal was to better understand and predict relationships between emissions of organic chemicals of emerging ... -
NILU's Strategic Institute Initiatives (SIS) 2015.
Aas, Wenche; Breivik, Knut; Fiebig, Markus; Høiskar, Britt Ann Kåstad; Pacyna, Elisabeth G; Rundén-Pran, Elise; Schlabach, Martin; Sundseth, Kyrre (NILU report;3/2016, Research report, 2016)Each of NILU’s Strategic Institute Initiatives(SIS) is required to deliver a popular science report annually to the Research Council. This report contains all of NILU’s annual SIS-reports for 2015. -
NILU's Strategic Institute Initiatives (SIS) 2016
Aas, Wenche; Rundén-Pran, Elise; Breivik, Knut; Sundseth, Kyrre; Høiskar, Britt Ann Kåstad; Platt, Stephen Matthew; Castell, Nuria; Schlabach, Martin (NILU report; 12/2017, Research report, 2017)Each of NILU’s Strategic Institute Initiatives (SIS) is required to deliver a popular science report annually to the Research Council. This report contains NILU’s final reports for the SIS-projects that ended in 2016, and ... -
NILU’s Strategic Institute Initiatives (SIS) - 2014
Lopez-Aparicio, Susana; Myhre, Cathrine Lund; Fiebig, Markus; Schlabach, Martin; Aas, Wenche; Breivik, Knut; Rundén-Pran, Elise (NILU OR;8/2015, Research report, 2015)Each of NILU’s Strategic Institute Initiatives (SIS) is required to deliver a popular science report annually to the Research Council. This report contains all of NILU’s annual SIS-reports for 2014