Browsing NILU Brage by Author "Zwaaftink, Christine Groot"

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    • A new aerosol wet removal scheme for the Lagrangian particle model FLEXPART v10 

      Grythe, Henrik; Kristiansen, Nina Iren; Zwaaftink, Christine Groot; Eckhardt, Sabine; Ström, Johan; Tunved, Peter; Krejci, Radovan; Stohl, Andreas (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)

    • The Community Inversion Framework v1.0: a unified system for atmospheric inversion studies 

      Berchet, Antoine; Sollum, Espen; Thompson, Rona Louise; Pison, Isabelle; Thanwerdas, Joel; Broquet, Grégoire; Chevallier, Frédéric; Aalto, Tuula; Berchet, Adrien; Bergamaschi, Peter; Brunner, Dominik; Engelen, Richard; Fortems-Cheiney, Audrey; Gerbig, Christoph; Zwaaftink, Christine Groot; Haussaire, Jean-Matthieu; Henne, Stephan; Houweling, Sanne; Karstens, Ute; Kutsch, Werner L.; Luijkx, Ingrid T.; Monteil, Guillaume; Palmer, Paul I.; van Peet, Jacob C. A.; Peters, Wouter; Peylin, Philippe; Potier, Elise; Rödenbeck, Christian; Saunois, Marielle; Scholze, Marko; Tsuruta, Aki; Zhao, Yuanhong (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Atmospheric inversion approaches are expected to play a critical role in future observation-based monitoring systems for surface fluxes of greenhouse gases (GHGs), pollutants and other trace gases. In the past decade, the ...

    • Comparisons between the distributions of dust and combustion aerosols in MERRA-2, FLEXPART, and CALIPSO and implications for deposition freezing over wintertime Siberia 

      Zamora, Lauren M; Kahn, Ralph A.; Evangeliou, Nikolaos; Zwaaftink, Christine Groot; Huebert, Klaus B (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Aerosol distributions have a potentially large influence on climate-relevant cloud properties but can be difficult to observe over the Arctic given pervasive cloudiness, long polar nights, data paucity over remote regions, ...

    • The consolidated European synthesis of CH4 and N2O emissions for the European Union and United Kingdom: 1990–2017 

      Petrescu, Ana Maria Roxana; Qiu, Chunjing; Ciais, Philippe; Thompson, Rona Louise; Peylin, Philippe; McGrath, Matthew J; Solazzo, Efisio; Janssens-Maenhout, Greet; Tubiello, Francesco N.; Bergamaschi, Peter; Brunner, Dominik; Peters, Glen Philip; Hoglund-Isaksson, Lena; Regnier, Pierre; Lauerwald, Ronny; Bastviken, David; Tsuruta, Aki; Winiwarter, Wilfried; Patra, Prabir K.; Kuhnert, Matthias; Oreggioni, Gabriel David; Crippa, Monica; Saunois, Marielle; Perugini, Lucia; Markkanen, Tiina; Aalto, Tuula; Zwaaftink, Christine Groot; Yao, Yuanzhi; Wilson, Chris; Conchedda, Giulia; Günther, Dirk; Leip, Adrian; Smith, Pete; Haussaire, Jean-Matthieu; Leppänen, Antti; Manning, Alistair J.; McNorton, Joe; Brockmann, Patrick; Dolman, Albertus Johannes (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Reliable quantification of the sources and sinks of greenhouse gases, together with trends and uncertainties, is essential to monitoring the progress in mitigating anthropogenic emissions under the Paris Agreement. This ...

    • The consolidated European synthesis of CH4 and N2O emissions for the European Union and United Kingdom: 1990–2019 

      Petrescu, Ana Maria Roxana; Qiu, Chunjing; McGrath, Matthew J; Peylin, Philippe; Peters, Glen Philip; Ciais, Philippe; Thompson, Rona Louise; Tsuruta, Aki; Brunner, Dominik; Kuhnert, Matthias; Matthews, Bradley; Palmer, Paul I.; Tarasova, Oksana; Regnier, Pierre; Lauerwald, Ronny; Bastviken, David; Hoglund-Isaksson, Lena; Winiwarter, Wilfried; Etiope, Giuseppe; Aalto, Tuula; Balsamo, Gianpaolo; Bastrikov, Vladislav; Berchet, Antoine; Brockmann, Patrick; Ciotoli, Giancarlo; Conchedda, Giulia; Monica, Crippa; Dentener, Frank; Zwaaftink, Christine Groot; Guizzardi, Diego; Günther, Dirk (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Knowledge of the spatial distribution of the fluxes of greenhouse gases (GHGs) and their temporal variability as well as flux attribution to natural and anthropogenic processes is essential to monitoring the progress in ...

    • Effects of extreme meteorological conditions in 2018 on European methane emissions estimated using atmospheric inversions 

      Thompson, Rona Louise; Zwaaftink, Christine Groot; Brunner, D; Tsuruta, Aki; Aalto, T.; Raivonen, M; Crippa, M.; Solazzo, Efisio; Guizzardi, D.; Regnier, P.; Maisonnier, M. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      The effect of the 2018 extreme meteorological conditions in Europe on methane (CH4) emissions is examined using estimates from four atmospheric inversions calculated for the period 2005–2018. For most of Europe, we find ...

    • Impact of dust deposition on the albedo of Vatnajökull ice cap, Iceland 

      Wittmann, Monika; Zwaaftink, Christine Groot; Schmidt, Louise Steffensen; Gudmundsson, Sverrir; Pálsson, Finnur; Arnalds, Olafur; Björnsson, Helgi; Thorsteinsson, Throstur; Stohl, Andreas (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)

    • Mineral dust instantaneous radiative forcing in the Arctic 

      Kylling, Arve; Zwaaftink, Christine Groot; Stohl, Andreas (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)

    • Modelling the 2021 East Asia super dust storm using FLEXPART and FLEXDUST and its comparison with reanalyses and observations 

      Tang, Hui; Haugvaldstad, Ove Westermoen; Stordal, Frode; Bi, Jianrong; Zwaaftink, Christine Groot; Grythe, Henrik; Wang, Bin; Rao, Zhimin; Zhang, Zhongshi; Berntsen, Terje Koren; Kaakinen, Anu (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      The 2021 East Asia sandstorm began from the Eastern Gobi desert steppe in Mongolia on March 14, and later spread to northern China and the Korean Peninsula. It was the biggest sandstorm to hit China in a decade, causing ...

    • The Monitoring Nitrous Oxide Sources (MIN2OS) satellite project 

      Ricaud, Philippe; Attié, Jean-Luc; Chalinel, Rémi; Pasternak, Frédérick; Léonard, Joël; Pison, Isabelle; Pattey, Elizabeth; Thompson, Rona Louise; Zelinger, Zdenek; Lelieveld, Jos; Sciare, Jean; Saitoh, Naoko; Warner, Juying; Fortems-Cheiney, Audrey; Reynal, Hélène; Vidot, Jérôme; Brooker, Laure; Berdeu, Laurent; Saint-Pé, Olivier; Patra, Prabir K.; Dostál, Michal; Suchánek, Jan; Nevrlý, Václav; Zwaaftink, Christine Groot (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      The Monitoring Nitrous Oxide Sources (MIN2OS) satellite project aims at monitoring global-scale nitrous oxide (N2O) sources by retrieving N2O surface fluxes from the inversion of space-borne N2O measurements that are ...

    • Monitoring of long-range transported air pollutants in Norway. Annual Report 2020. 

      Aas, Wenche; Eckhardt, Sabine; Fiebig, Markus; Platt, Stephen Matthew; Solberg, Sverre; Yttri, Karl Espen; Zwaaftink, Christine Groot (NILU report;13/2021, Research report, 2021)
      This report presents results from the monitoring of atmospheric composition and deposition of air pollution in 2020, and focuses on main components in air and precipitation, particulate and gaseous phase of inorganic ...

    • Optical and Microphysical Properties of the Aerosols during a Rare Event of Biomass-Burning Mixed with Polluted Dust 

      Gidarakou, Marilena; Papayannis, Alexandros; Kokkalis, Panagiotis; Evangeliou, Nikolaos; Vratolis, Stergios; Remoundaki, Emmanouella; Zwaaftink, Christine Groot; Eckhardt, Sabine; Veselovskii, Igor; Mylonaki, Maria; Argyrouli, Athina; Eleftheriadis, Konstantinos; Solomos, Stavros; Gini, Maria (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)
      A rare event of mixed biomass-burning and polluted dust aerosols was observed over Athens, Greece (37.9° N, 23.6° E), during 21–26 May 2014. This event was studied using a synergy of a 6-wavelength elastic-Raman-depolarization ...

    • Revised historical Northern Hemisphere black carbon emissions based on inverse modeling of ice core records 

      Eckhardt, Sabine; Pisso, Ignacio; Evangeliou, Nikolaos; Zwaaftink, Christine Groot; Plach, Andreas; McConnell, Joseph R.; Sigl, Michael; Ruppel, Meri; Zdanowicz, Christian; Lim, Saehee; Chellman, Nathan J; Opel, Thomas; Meyer, Hanno; Steffensen, Jørgen Peder; Schwikowski, Margit; Stohl, Andreas (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Black carbon emitted by incomplete combustion of fossil fuels and biomass has a net warming effect in the atmosphere and reduces the albedo when deposited on ice and snow; accurate knowledge of past emissions is essential ...

    • Sources and fate of atmospheric microplastics revealed from inverse and dispersion modelling: From global emissions to deposition 

      Evangeliou, Nikolaos; Tichý, Ondřej; Eckhardt, Sabine; Zwaaftink, Christine Groot; Brahney, Janice (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      We combine observations from Western USA and inverse modelling to constrain global atmospheric emissions of microplastics (MPs) and microfibers (MFs). The latter are used further to model their global atmospheric dynamics. ...

    • Substantial contribution of northern high-latitude sources to mineral dust in the Arctic. 

      Zwaaftink, Christine Groot; Grythe, Henrik; Skov, Henrik; Stohl, Andreas (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)

    • Temporal and spatial variability of Icelandic dust emissions and atmospheric transport 

      Zwaaftink, Christine Groot; Arnalds, Ólafur; Dagsson-Waldhauserova, Pavla; Eckhardt, Sabine; Prospero, Jospeh M.; Stohl, Andreas (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)

    • The Lagrangian particle dispersion model FLEXPART version 10.4 

      Pisso, Ignacio; Sollum, Espen; Grythe, Henrik; Kristiansen, Nina Iren; Cassiani, Massimo; Eckhardt, Sabine; Arnold, Delia; Morton, Don; Thompson, Rona Louise; Zwaaftink, Christine Groot; Evangeliou, Nikolaos; Sodemann, Harald; Haimberger, Leopold; Henne, Stephan; Brunner, Dominik; Burkhart, John; Fouilloux, Anne Claire; Brioude, Jerome; Philipp, Anne; Seibert, Petra; Stohl, Andreas (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      The Lagrangian particle dispersion model FLEXPART in its original version in the mid-1990s was designed for calculating the long-range and mesoscale dispersion of hazardous substances from point sources, such as those ...

    • Three-dimensional methane distribution simulated with FLEXPART 8-CTM-1.1 constrained with observation data 

      Zwaaftink, Christine Groot; Henne, Stephan; Thompson, Rona Louise; Dlugokencky, Edward J.; Machida, Toshinobu; Paris, Jean-Daniel; Sasakawa, Motoki; Segers, Arjo; Sweeney, Colm; Stohl, Andreas (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      A Lagrangian particle dispersion model, the FLEXible PARTicle dispersion chemical transport model (FLEXPART CTM), is used to simulate global three-dimensional fields of trace gas abundance. These fields are constrained ...

    • What caused a record high PM10 episode in northern Europe in October 2020? 

      Zwaaftink, Christine Groot; Aas, Wenche; Eckhardt, Sabine; Evangeliou, Nikolaos; Hamer, Paul David; Johnsrud, Mona; Kylling, Arve; Platt, Stephen Matthew; Stebel, Kerstin; Uggerud, Hilde Thelle; Yttri, Karl Espen (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      In early October 2020, northern Europe experienced an episode with poor air quality due to high concentrations of particulate matter (PM). At several sites in Norway, recorded weekly values exceeded historical maximum PM10 ...