Browsing NILU Brage by Author "Breivik, Knut"
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Air pollution trends in the EMEP region between 1990 and 2012. Joint Report of the EMEP Task Force on Measurements and Modelling (TFMM), Chemical Co-ordinating Centre (CCC), Meteorological Synthesizing Centre-East (MSC-E), Meteorological Synthesizing Centre-West (MSC-W).
Colette, Augustin; Aas, Wenche; Banin, Lindsay; Braban, Christine F.; Ferm, Martin; Ortiz, Alberto; Ilyin, Ilia; Mar, Kathleen; Pandolfi, Marco; Putaud, Jean-Philippe; Shatalov, Victor; Solberg, Sverre; Spindler, Gerald; Tarasova, Oksana; Vána, Milan; Adani, Mario; Almodovar, Paul; Berton, Eva; Bessagnet, Bertrand; Bohlin-Nizzetto, Pernilla; Borukova, Jana; Breivik, Knut; Briganti, Gino; Cappelletti, Andrea; Cuvelier, Kees; Derwent, Richard; D'Isidoro, Massimo; Fagerli, Hilde; Funk, Clara; Vivanco, Marta García; Haeuber, Richard; Hueglin, Christoph; Jenkins, Scott; Kerr, Jennifer; de Leeuw, Frank; Lynch, Jason; Manders, Astrid; Mircea, Mihaela; Pay, María Teresa; Pritula, Dominique; Querol, Xavier; Raffort, Valentin; Reiss, Ilze; Roustan, Yelva; Sauvage, Stéphane; Scavo, Kimber; Simpson, David; Smith, Ron I.; Tang, Y. Sim; Theobald, Mark; Tørseth, Kjetil; Tsyro, Svetlana; van Pul, Addo; Vidic, Sonja; Wallasch, Markus; Wind, Peter (EMEP/CCC-Report;1/2016, Research report, 2016) -
Atmospheric composition in the European Arctic and 30 years of the Zeppelin Observatory, Ny-Ålesund
Platt, Stephen Matthew; Hov, Øystein; Berg, Torunn; Breivik, Knut; Eckhardt, Sabine; Eleftheriadis, Konstantinos; Evangeliou, Nikolaos; Fiebig, Markus; Fisher, Rebecca; Hansen, Georg Heinrich; Hansson, Hans-Christen; Heintzenberg, Jost; Hermansen, Ove; Heslin-Rees, Dominic; Holmén, Kim; Hudson, Stephen; Kallenborn, Roland; Krejci, Radovan; Krognes, Terje; Larssen, Steinar; Lowry, David; Myhre, Cathrine Lund; Lunder, Chris Rene; Nisbet, Euan; Bohlin-Nizzetto, Pernilla; Park, Ki-Tae; Pedersen, Christina Alsvik; Pfaffhuber, Katrine Aspmo; Röckmann, Thomas; Schmidbauer, Norbert; Solberg, Sverre; Stohl, Andreas; Ström, Johan; Svendby, Tove Marit; Tunved, Peter; Tørnkvist, Kjersti Karlsen; van der Veen, Carina; Vratolis, Stergios; Jun Yoon, Young; Yttri, Karl Espen; Zieger, Paul; Aas, Wenche; Tørseth, Kjetil (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)The Zeppelin Observatory (78.90∘ N, 11.88∘ E) is located on Zeppelin Mountain at 472 m a.s.l. on Spitsbergen, the largest island of the Svalbard archipelago. Established in 1989, the observatory is part of Ny-Ålesund ... -
Atmospheric polychlorinated biphenyls in Indian cities: Levels, emission sources and toxicity equivalents
Chakraborty, Paromita; Zhang, Gan; Eckhardt, Sabine; Li, Jun; Breivik, Knut; Lam, Paul KS; Tanabe, Shinsuke; Jones, Kevin C (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)Atmospheric concentration of Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) were measured on diurnal basis by active air sampling during Dec 2006 to Feb 2007 in seven major cities from the northern (New Delhi and Agra), eastern (Kolkata), ... -
Atmospheric transport of environmental pollutants to Lake Mjøsa.
Schlabach, Martin; Breivik, Knut; Fjeld, Eirik; Hirdmann, David; Pfaffhuber, Katrine Aspmo; Stohl, Andreas (NILU OR; 47/2009, Research report, 2009)This report describes the results of a study to reveal the sources that control levels of selected contaminants in Lake Mjøsa. The project focused on sources to air, airborne transport and deposition of PCBs, PBDEs, HBCDDs, ... -
Calibration and Application of a Passive Air Sampler (XAD-PAS) for Volatile Methyl Siloxanes
Krogseth, Ingjerd Sunde; Zhang, Xianming; Lei, Ying D.; Wania, Frank; Breivik, Knut (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)Because the atmosphere is key to understanding the environmental behavior of volatile methyl siloxanes (VMS), a variety of reliable air sampling methods are needed. The purpose of this study was to calibrate and evaluate ... -
Characterization of Inhalation Exposure to Gaseous Elemental Mercury During Artisanal Gold Mining and E-Waste Recycling Through Combined Stationary and Personal Passive Sampling
Snow, Melanie A.; Darko, Godfred; Gyamfi, Opoku; Ansah, Eugene; Breivik, Knut; Hoang, Christopher; Lei, Ying Duan; Wania, Frank (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)While occupational inhalation exposure to gaseous elemental mercury (GEM) has decreased in many workplaces as mercury is being removed from most products and processes, it continues to be a concern for those engaged in ... -
Dynamic modelling of aquatic exposure and pelagic food chain transfer of cyclic volatile methyl siloxanes in the Inner Oslofjord
Whelan, M.J.; Breivik, Knut (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)The marine fate and pelagic food chain transfer of three cyclic volatile methyl siloxanes (cVMS: D4, D5 and D6) was explored in the Inner Oslofjord, Norway, using two dynamic models (the Oslofjord POP Model and the aquatic ... -
E-waste driven pollution in Pakistan: The First evidence of environmental and human exposure to flame retardants (FRs) in Karachi city
Iqbal, Mehreen; Syed, Jabir Hussain; Breivik, Knut; Chaudhry, Muhammad Jamshed Iqbal; Li, Jun; Zhang, Gan; Malik, Riffat Naseem (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017) -
Ecological unequal exchange: quantifying emissions of toxic chemicals embodied in the global trade of chemicals, products, and waste
Tong, Kate; Li, Li; Breivik, Knut; Wania, Frank (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Ecologically unequal exchange arises if more developed economies ('core') shift the environmental burden of their consumption and capital accumulation to less developed economies ('periphery'/'semi-core'). Here we demonstrate ... -
Elucidating the Behavior of Cyclic Volatile Methylsiloxanes in a Subarctic Freshwater Food Web: A Modeled and Measured Approach
Krogseth, Ingjerd Sunde; Undeman, Emma Maria; Evenset, Anita; Christensen, Guttorm N.; Whelan, Mick; Breivik, Knut; Warner, Nicholas Alexander (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Cyclic volatile methylsiloxanes (cVMS) are used in personal care products and emitted to aquatic environments through wastewater effluents, and their bioaccumulation potential is debated. Here, a new bentho-pelagic version ... -
Emerging issue of e-waste in Pakistan: A review of status, research needs and data gaps
Iqbal, Mehreen; Breivik, Knut; Syed, Jabir Hussain; Malik, Riffat Naseem; Li, Jun; Zhang, Gan; Jones, Kevin C. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)This review article focuses on the current situation of e-waste in Pakistan with the emphasis on defining the major e-waste recycling sites, current and future domestic generation of e-waste, hidden flows or import of ... -
Endosulfan, pentachlorobenzene and short-chain chlorinated paraffins in background soils from Western Europe
Halse, Anne Karine; Schlabach, Martin; Schuster, Jasmin K; Jones, Kevin C; Steinnes, Eiliv; Breivik, Knut (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)Soils are major reservoirs for many persistent organic pollutants (POPs). In this study, “newly” regulated POPs i.e. sum endosulfans (a-endosulfan, b-endosulfan, endosulfan sulfate), pentachlorobenzene (PeCB), and short-chain ... -
Estimating Time-Varying PCB Exposures Using Person-SpecificPredictions to Supplement Measured Values: A Comparison ofObserved and Predicted Values in Two Cohorts of NorwegianWomen
Nøst, Therese Haugdahl; Breivik, Knut; Wania, Frank; Rylander, Charlotta; Odland, Jon Øyvind; Sandanger, Torkjel M (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)Background: Studies on health effects of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) call for an understanding of past and present human exposure. Time-resolved mechanistic models may supplement information on concentrations in ... -
Evaluating the Environmental Fate of Short-Chain Chlorinated Paraffins (SCCPs) in the Nordic Environment Using a Dynamic Multimedia Model
Krogseth, Ingjerd Sunde; Breivik, Knut; Arnot, Jon A; Wania, Frank; Borgen, Anders; Schlabach, Martin (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)Short chain chlorinated paraffins (SCCPs) raise concerns due to their potential for persistence, bioaccumulation, long-range transport and adverse effects. An understanding of their environmental fate remains limited, ... -
Forecasting long-range atmospheric transport episodes of polychlorinated biphenyls using FLEXPART
Halse, Anne Karine; Eckhardt, Sabine; Schlabach, Martin; Stohl, Andreas; Breivik, Knut (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)The analysis of concentrations of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in ambient air is costly and can only be done for a limited number of samples. It is thus beneficial to maximize the information content of the samples ... -
Global Historical Stocks and Emissions of PBDEs
Abbasi, Golnoush; Li, Li; Breivik, Knut (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)The first spatially and temporally resolved inventory of BDE28, 47, 99, 153, 183, and 209 in the anthroposphere and environment is presented here. The stock and emissions of PBDE congeners were estimated using a dynamic ... -
High concentrations of organic contaminants in air from ship breaking activities in Chittagong, Bangladesh
Nøst, Therese Haugdahl; Halse, Anne Karine; Randall, Scott; Borgen, Anders; Schlabach, Martin; Paul, Alak; Rahman, Atiqur; Breivik, Knut (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015) -
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 ...