Browsing NILU Brage by Author "Lopez-Aparicio, Susana"
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Air pollution emission inventory using national high-resolution spatial parameters for the Nordic countries and analysis of PM2.5 spatial distribution for road transport and machinery and off-road sectors
Paunu, Ville-Veikko; Karvosenoja, Niko; Segersson, David; Lopez-Aparicio, Susana; Nielsen, Ole-Kenneth; Plejdrup, Marlene S.; Thorsteinsson, Throstur; Vo, Dam Thanh; Kuenen, Jeroen; van der Gon, Hugo Denier; Jalkanen, Jukka-Pekka; Brandt, Jørgen; Geels, Camilla (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)Air pollution is an important cause of adverse health effects, even in the Nordic countries, which have relatively good air quality. Modelling-based air quality assessment of the health impacts relies on reliable model ... -
Air quality in 7 Norwegian municipalities in 2015. Summary report for NBV results.
Tarrasón, Leonor; Sousa Santos, Gabriela; Vo, Dam Thanh; Hamer, Paul David; Vogt, Matthias; Lopez-Aparicio, Susana; Røen, Håvard Vika; Høiskar, Britt Ann Kåstad (NILU report;15/2018, Research report, 2018)This report documents the methodology used to compile air quality information for the year 2015 in seven Norwegian municipality areas under the first phase of development of the Norwegian Air Quality Planning Tool, also ... -
Air quality in Norwegian cities in 2015. Evaluation Report for NBV Main Results.
Tarrasón, Leonor; Sousa Santos, Gabriela; Vo, Dam Thanh; Vogt, Matthias; Lopez-Aparicio, Susana; Denby, Bruce; Tønnesen, Dag Arild; Sundvor, Ingrid; Røen, Håvard Vika; Høiskar, Britt Ann Kåstad (NILU report;21/2017, Research report, 2018)This report documents the final deliveries of the first phase of development of the Norwegian Air Quality Planning Tool, also called “Nasjonalt Beregningsverktøy” or NBV. The main purpose of NBV is to provide a common ... -
Air quality zone delimitation in Norway. Evaluation and delimitation proposal.
Lopez-Aparicio, Susana; Tønnesen, Dag Arild (NILU OR;28/2013, Research report, 2013)An evaluation of the air quality in Norway over the last five years has been performed to set up the basis for a new Air Quality zone (AQ-zone) delimitation for reporting to European Commission concerning compliance of air ... -
An Infrastructural Analysis of a Crowdsourcing Tool for Environmental Research
Fossum, Selamawit Molla; Lopez-Aparicio, Susana; Røen, Håvard Vika (Journal article, 2018)In this paper, we adopt information infrastructure design principles and concepts from the theory of critical mass to analyze and evaluate the socio-technical conditions that hindered the successful bootstrapping processes ... -
Assessment of discrepancies between bottom-up and regional emission inventories in Norwegian urban areas
Lopez-Aparicio, Susana; Guevara, Marc; Thunis, Philippe; Cuvelier, Kees; Tarrasón, Leonor (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017) -
Atmospheric transport is a major pathway of microplastics to remote regions
Evangeliou, Nikolaos; Grythe, Henrik; Klimont, Zbigniew; Heyes, Chris; Eckhardt, Sabine; Lopez-Aparicio, Susana; Stohl, Andreas (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)In recent years, marine, freshwater and terrestrial pollution with microplastics has been discussed extensively, whereas atmospheric microplastic transport has been largely overlooked. Here, we present global simulations ... -
Contributions of Nordic anthropogenic emissions on air pollution and premature mortality over the Nordic region and the Arctic
Im, Ulas; Christensen, Jesper H.; Nielsen, Ole-Kenneth; Sand, Maria; Makkonen, Risto; Geels, Camilla; Anderson, Camilla; Kukkonen, Jaakko; Lopez-Aparicio, Susana; Brandt, Jørgen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)This modeling study presents the sectoral contributions of anthropogenic emissions in the four Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden) on air pollution levels and the associated health impacts and costs over ... -
Costs and benefits of implementing an Environmental Speed Limit in a Nordic city
Lopez-Aparicio, Susana; Grythe, Henrik; Thorne, Rebecca Jayne; Vogt, Matthias (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)We present a comprehensive study on the impacts and associated changes in costs resulting from the implementation of Environmental Speed Limits (ESLs), as a measure to reduce PM10 and associated health effects. We present ... -
Data Fusion for Enhancing Urban Air Quality Modeling using Large-Scale Citizen Science
O'Regan, Anna C.; Grythe, Henrik; Hellebust, Stig; Lopez-Aparicio, Susana; O’Dowd, Colin; Hamer, Paul David; Sousa Santos, Gabriela; Nyhan, Marguerite M. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)Rapid urbanization has led to many environmental issues, including poor air quality. With urbanization set to continue, there is an urgent need to mitigate air pollution and minimize its adverse health impacts. This study ... -
Decoupling Emission Reductions and Trade-Offs of Policies in Norway Based on a Bottom-Up Traffic Emission Model
Grythe, Henrik; Lopez-Aparicio, Susana; Høyem, Harald; Weydahl, Torleif (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)The way Norway is spearheading electrification in the transport sector is of global interest. In this study, we used the Norwegian Emissions from Road Vehicle Exhaust (NERVE) model, a bottom-up high-resolution traffic ... -
Emission ensemble approach to improve the development of multi-scale emission inventories
Thunis, Philippe; Kuenen, Jeroen; Pisoni, Enrico; Bessagnet, Bertrand; Banja, Manjola; Gawuc, Lech; Szymankiewicz, Karol; Guizardi, Diego; Crippa, Monica; Lopez-Aparicio, Susana; Guevara, Marc; de Meij, Alexander; Schindlbacher, Sabine; Clappier, Alain (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)Many studies have shown that emission inventories are one of the inputs with the most critical influences on the results of air quality modelling. Comparing emission inventories among themselves is, therefore, essential ... -
Emission estimates for Norwegian cities. NBV_Emission Database v.0.
Lopez-Aparicio, Susana; Vo, Dam Thanh (NILU OR;35/2015, Research report, 2015)This report is part of the development of a National Modelling System for local air quality (“Nasjonalt Beregningsverktøy” or NBV project). We describe and document the emission database used as baseline in the NBV project ... -
The EmSite model for high resolution emissions from machinery in construction sites
Lopez-Aparicio, Susana; Grythe, Henrik (NILU report;5/2022, Research report, 2022)The report describes the EmSite model developed to estimate exhaust and non-exhaust emissions from non-road mobile machinery (NRMM) used in building and construction. The model is based on a complete national database of ... -
Environmental monitoring and evaluation of the indoor environment in the Baroque Library Hall of the National Library (Czech Republic). Indoor air quality assessment of the Baroque Library Hall.
Lopez-Aparicio, Susana; Grøntoft, Terje (NILU OR; 74/2010, Research report, 2010)Concentrations of NO2, O3, SO2, acetic and formic acids, HNO3 and NH3 were measured inside and outside a historical building, the Baroque Library Hall (BLH) in the National Library in Prague (Czech Republic). The relationship ... -
Evaluating the effectiveness of a stove exchange programme on PM2.5 emission reduction
Lopez-Aparicio, Susana; Grythe, Henrik (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Residential wood combustion (RWC) is one of the most important sources of particulate matter () in urban areas. As a consequence, different types of regulatory instruments are being implemented to reduce emissions. In this ... -
Fingerprint of Volatile Organic Compounds in the Quintero-Puchuncaví area. Results from Screening Campaign.
Schmidbauer, Norbert; Lopez-Aparicio, Susana (NILU rapport;7/2019, Research report, 2019)This report presents the results from a screening study of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in the Quintero-Puchuncaví region (Chile). Two different methods were selected, one quantitative (canisters samplers / analysis ... -
Health impacts of PM2.5 originating from residential wood combustion in four nordic cities
Orru, Hans; Olstrup, Henrik; Kukkonen, Jaakko; Lopez-Aparicio, Susana; Segersson, David; Geels, Camilla; Tamm, Tanel; Riikonen, Kari; Maragkidou, Androniki; Sigsgaard, Torben; Brandt, Jørgen; Grythe, Henrik; Forsberg, Bertil (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Residential wood combustion (RWC) is one of the largest sources of fine particles (PM2.5) in the Nordic cities. The current study aims to calculate the related health effects in four studied city areas in Sweden, Finland, ... -
High-Resolution Emissions from Wood Burning in Norway—The Effect of Cabin Emissions
Lopez-Aparicio, Susana; Grythe, Henrik; Markelj, Miha (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Emissions from wood burning for heating in secondary homes or cabins is an important part in the development of high-resolution emissions in specific areas. Norway is used as case study as 20% of the national wood consumption ... -
Impact of bioethanol fuel implementation in transport based on modelled acetaldehyde concentration in the urban environment
Sundvor, Ingrid; Lopez-Aparicio, Susana (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)