Blar i NILU Brage på forfatter "Breivik, Knut"
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Non-target and suspect characterisation of organic contaminants in Arctic air – Part 2: Application of a new tool for identification and prioritisation of chemicals of emerging Arctic concern in air
Röhler, Laura; Schlabach, Martin; Haglund, Peter; Breivik, Knut; Kallenborn, Roland; Bohlin-Nizzetto, Pernilla (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)The Norwegian Arctic possesses a unique environment for the detection of new potential chemicals of emerging Arctic concern (CEACs) due to remoteness, sparse population and the low number of local contamination sources. ... -
Occurrence and seasonality of cyclic volatile methyl siloxanes in Arctic air
Krogseth, Ingjerd Sunde; Kierkegaard, Amelie; McLachlan, Michael S.; Breivik, Knut; Hansen, Kaj M.; Schlabach, Martin (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)Cyclic volatile methyl siloxanes (cVMS) are present in technical applications and personal care products. They are predicted to undergo long-range atmospheric transport, but measurements of cVMS in remote areas remain ... -
Persistent Organic Pollutants in Norwegian Men from 1979 to 2007: Intraindividual Changes, Age–Period–Cohort Effects, and Model Predictions
Nøst, Therese Haugdahl; Breivik, Knut; Fuskevåg, Ole-Martin; Nieboer, Evert; Odland, Jon Øyvind; Sandanger, Torkjel M (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)Background: Longitudinal monitoring studies of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in human populations are important to better understand changes with time and age, and for future predictions. Objectives: We sought ... -
Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) as sentinels for the elucidation of Arctic environmental change processes: a comprehensive review combined with ArcRisk project results
Carlsson, Pernilla; Breivik, Knut; Brorström-Lundén, Eva; Cousins, Ian; Christensen, Jesper; Grimalt, Joan O.; Halsall, Crispin; Kallenborn, Roland; Abass, Khaled; Lammel, Gerhard; Munthe, John; MacLeod, Matthew; Odland, Jon Øyvind; Pawlak, Janet; Rautio, Arja; Reiersen, Lars-Otto; Schlabach, Martin; Stemmler, Irene; Wilson, Simon; Wöhrnschimmel, Henry (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) can be used as chemical sentinels for the assessment of anthropogenic influences on Arctic environmental change. We present an overview of studies on PCBs in the Arctic and combine these ... -
Possible emissions of POPs in plain and hilly areas of Nepal: Implications for source apportionment and health risk assessment
Yadav, Ishwar chandra; Devi, Ningombam linthoingambi; Li, Jun; Zhang, Gan; Breivik, Knut (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Ambient air is a core media chosen for monitoring under the Stockholm Convention on POPs. While extensive monitoring of POPs in ambient air has been carried out in some parts of the globe, there are still regions with very ... -
The presence, emission and partitioning behavior of polychlorinated biphenyls in waste, leachate and aerosols from Norwegian waste-handling facilities
Arp, Hans Peter; Morin, Nicolas; Andersson, Patrik L.; Hale, Sarah; Wania, Frank; Breivik, Knut; Breedveld, Gijs D. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Even though production and open use of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) have been phased out in Western industrialised countries since the 1980s, PCBs were still present in waste collected from different waste handling ... -
Prioritizing Chemicals and Data Requirements for Screening-Level Exposure and Risk Assessment
Arnot, Jon A; Brown, Trevor N.; Wania, Frank; Breivik, Knut; McLachlan, Michael S. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)Background: Scientists and regulatory agencies strive to identify chemicals that may cause harmful effects to humans and the environment; however, prioritization is challenging because of the large number of chemicals ... -
Soil concentrations, occurrence, sources and estimation of air–soil exchange of polychlorinated biphenyls in Indian cities
Chakraborty, Paromita; Zhang, Gan; Li, Jun; Selvaraj, Sakthivel; Breivik, Knut; Jones, Kevin C (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)Past studies have shown potentially increasing levels of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in the Indian environment. This is the first attempt to investigate the occurrence of PCBs in surface soil and estimate diffusive ... -
Soil pollution at a major West African E-waste recycling site: Contamination pathways and implications for potential mitigation strategies
Möckel, Claudia; Breivik, Knut; Nøst, Therese Haugdahl; Sankoh, Alhaji; Jones, Kevin C.; Sweetman, Andrew (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Organic contaminants (polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), and chlorinated paraffins (CPs)) and heavy metals and metalloids (Ag, Cd, Co, Cr, Cu, ... -
Source regions of some persistent organic pollutants measured in the atmosphere at Birkenes, Norway
Eckhardt, Sabine; Breivik, Knut; Li, Yi-Fan; Manø, Stein; Stohl, Andreas (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2009)A key feature of POPs (Persistent Organic Pollutants) is their potential for long-range atmospheric transport. In order to better understand and predict atmospheric source-receptor relationships of POPs, we have modified ... -
Spatial distribution of Dechlorane Plus and dechlorane related compounds in European background air
Skogeng, Lovise Pedersen; Halvorsen, Helene Lunder; Breivik, Knut; Eckhardt, Sabine; Herzke, Dorte; Moeckel, Claudia; Krogseth, Ingjerd Sunde (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)The highly chlorinated chemical Dechlorane Plus (DP) was introduced as a replacement flame retardant for Mirex, which is banned through the Stockholm Convention (SC) for its toxicity (T), environmental persistence (P), ... -
Spatial trends of chlorinated paraffins and dechloranes in air and soil in a tropical urban, suburban, and rural environment
Nipen, Maja; Vogt, Rolf David; Bohlin-Nizzetto, Pernilla; Borgå, Katrine; Mwakalapa, Eliezer Brown; Borgen, anders Røsrud; Jørgensen, Susanne Jøntvedt; Ntapanta, Samwel Moses; Mmochi, Aviti John; Schlabach, Martin; Breivik, Knut (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)There are large knowledge gaps concerning environmental levels and fate of many organic pollutants, particularly for chemicals of emerging concern in tropical regions of the Global South. In this study, we investigated the ... -
Spatial variability and temporal changes of POPs in European background air
Halvorsen, Helene Lunder; Bohlin-Nizzetto, Pernilla; Eckhardt, Sabine; Gusev, Alexey; Moeckel, Claudia; Shatalov, Victor; Skogeng, Lovise Pedersen; Breivik, Knut (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Concentration data on POPs in air is necessary to assess the effectiveness of international regulations aiming to reduce the emissions of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) into the environment. POPs in European background ... -
Spatial variability of POPs in European background air
Halse, Anne Karine; Schlabach, Martin; Eckhardt, Sabine; Sweetman, Andy; Jones, Kevin C; Breivik, Knut (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)Passive air samplers (PAS) were deployed at 86 European background sites during summer 2006 in order (i) to gain further insight into spatial patterns of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in European background air and, ... -
Temporal trends of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) in arctic air: 20 years of monitoring under the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP)
Hung, Hayley; Katsoyiannis, Athanasios A.; Brorström-Lunden, Eva; Olafsdottir, Kristin; Aas, Wenche; Breivik, Knut; Bohlin-Nizzetto, Pernilla; Sigurdsson, Arni; Hakola, Hannele; Bossi, Rossana; Skov, Henrik; Sverko, Ed; Barresi, Enzo; Fellin, Phil; Wilson, Simon (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)Temporal trends of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) measured in Arctic air are essential in understanding long-range transport to remote regions and to evaluate the effectiveness of national and international chemical ... -
The impacts of emission trends of POPs on human concentration dynamics: Lessons learned from a longitudinal study in Norway (1979-2007)
Nøst, Therese Haugdahl; Sandanger, Torkjel M; Nieboer, Evert; Odland, Jon Øyvind; Breivik, Knut (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Background. In this short communication, our focus is on the relationship between human concentrations of select persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and environmental emissions. It is based on a longitudinal study (1979-2007) ... -
The mass flow and proposed management of bisphenol A in selected Norwegian waste streams
Arp, Hans Petter Heinrich; Morin, Nicolas; Hale, Sarah; Okkenhaug, Gudny; Breivik, Knut; Sparrevik, Magnus (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Current initiatives for waste-handling in a circular economy favor prevention and recycling over incineration or landfilling. However, the impact of such a transition on environmental emissions of contaminants like bisphenol ... -
The Oslofjord POP Model v.1.0. A fugacity-based non-steady state non-equilibrium multimedia fate and transport model.
Breivik, Knut; Bjerkeng, Birger; Wania, Frank; Magnusson, Jan; Helland, Aud; Pacyna, Jozef M (NILU OR; 24/2003, Research report, 2003)This report describes in detail the development and parameterisation of the Oslofjord POP Model – a fugacity based mass balance model developed to understand and predict the fate of POPs in the Oslofjord, Norway. The model ... -
Tilførsler av miljøgifter til Mjøsa. Tiltaksorientert forundersøkelse.
Breivik, Knut; Schlabach, Martin; Berg, Torunn (NILU OR;44/2005 N, Research report, 2005)Tilførsler av utvalgte miljøgifter til Mjøsa har blitt undersøkt og vurdert. Samlet vurdert tilsier resultatene at tilførselsmønsteret for PCB er sammensatt, og at det kan være betydelige kilder som ennå ikke er identifisert. ... -
Time trends of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and Chemicals of Emerging Arctic Concern (CEAC) in Arctic air from 25 years of monitoring
Wong, Fiona; Hung, Hayley; Dryfhout-Clark, Helena; Aas, Wenche; Bohlin-Nizzetto, Pernilla; Breivik, Knut; Mastromonaco, Michelle N.; Brorström-Lundén, Eva; Ólafsdóttir, Kristín; Sigurdsson, Arni; Vorkamp, Katrin; Bossi, Rossana; Skov, Henrik; Hakola, Hannele; Barresi, Enzo; Sverko, Ed; Fellin, Phil; Li, Henrik; Vlasenko, Alexander; Zapevalov, Mikhail; Samsonov, Dmitry; Wilson, Simon (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)The long-term time trends of atmospheric pollutants at eight Arctic monitoring stations are reported. The work was conducted under the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP) of the Arctic Council. The monitoring ...