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    • Revidert tiltaksutredning for lokal luftkvalitet i Drammen 

      Weydahl, Torleif; Markelj, Miha; Høyem, Harald (NILU rapport;9/2023, Research report, 2023)
      NILU – Norsk institutt for luftforskning har, i samarbeid med Asplan Viak AS, utarbeidet en tiltaksutredning for lokal luftkvalitet i Drammen kommune. Tiltaksutredningen omfatter en kartlegging av luftkvaliteten i Drammen ...

    • Halogen chemistry in volcanic plumes: a 1D framework based on MOCAGE 1D (version R1.18.1) preparing 3D global chemistry modelling 

      Marécal, Virginie; Voisin-Plessis, Ronan; Roberts, Tarda Jane; Aiuppa, Alessandro; Narivelo, Herizo; Hamer, Paul David; Josse, Beatrice; Guth, Jonathan; Surl, Luke (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      HBr emissions from volcanoes lead rapidly to the formation of BrO within volcanic plumes and have an impact on tropospheric chemistry, at least at the local and regional scales. The motivation of this paper is to prepare ...

    • Mapping potential conflicts between global agriculture and terrestrial conservation 

      Hoang, Nguyen Tien; Taherzadeh, Oliver; Ohashi, Haruka; Yonekura, Yusuke; Nishijima, Shota; Yamabe, Masaki; Matsui, Testuya; Matsuda, Hiroyuki; Moran, Daniel Dean; Kanemoto, Keiichiro (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Demand for food products, often from international trade, has brought agricultural land use into direct competition with biodiversity. Where these potential conflicts occur and which consumers are responsible is ...

    • SensEURCity: A multi-city air quality dataset collected for 2020/2021 using open low-cost sensor systems 

      Van Poppel, Martine; Schneider, Philipp; Peters, Jan; Yatkin, Sinan; Gerboles, Michel; Matheeussen, Christina; Bartonova, Alena; Davila, Silvije; Signorini, Marco; Vogt, Matthias; Dauge, Franck Rene; Skaar, Jøran Solnes; Haugen, Rolf (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Low-cost air quality sensor systems can be deployed at high density, making them a significant candidate of complementary tools for improved air quality assessment. However, they still suffer from poor or unknown data ...

    • Analysis of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Emissions from a Pilot Scale Silicon Process with Flue Gas Recirculation 

      Arnesen, Kamilla; Vachaparambil, Kurian Jomy; Vegar, Andersen; Panjwani, Balram; Jakovljevic, Katarina; Enge, Ellen Katrin; Gaertner, Heiko; Aarhaug, Thor Anders; Einarsrud, Kristian Etienne; Tranell, Maria Gabriella (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Flue gas recirculation (FGR) is a method used in several industries to control emissions and process conditions, such as NOx reduction and temperature levels, and increase the CO2 concentration in the off-gas, to be better ...

    • Antarctic sea-ice low resonates in the ecophysiology of humpback whales 

      Nash, Susan M. Bengtson; Groß, Jasmin; Castrillon, Juliana; Casa, Maria Valeria; Luche, Greta Dalle; Meager, Justin James; Ghosh, Ruma; Eggebo, June; Bohlin-Nizzetto, Pernilla (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      The past six years have been marked by some of the most dramatic climatic events observed in the Antarctic region in recent history, commencing with the 2017 sea-ice extreme low. The Humpback Whale Sentinel Programme is a ...

    • Review of methods that can be used in the assessment of atmospheric deposition 

      Aas, Wenche; Soares, Joana; Hamer, Paul David; Schneider, Philipp; Svendby, Tove Marit; Guerreiro, Cristina (NILU report;33/2022, Research report, 2023)
      There are three main approaches for estimating the atmospheric deposition: 1) From measurements of air and precipitation chemistry combined with statistical interpolation, 2) Chemical transport models, 3) Combined observations ...

    • Chlorinated paraffins and dechloranes in free-range chicken eggs and soil around waste disposal sites in Tanzania 

      Haarr, Ane; Nipen, Maja; Mwakalapa, Eliezer Brown; Borgen, Anders; Mmochi, Aviti J.; Borgå, Katrine (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Electronic waste is a source of both legacy and emerging flame retardants to the environment, especially in regions where sufficient waste handling systems are lacking. In the present study, we quantified the occurrence ...

    • Citizen-operated mobile low-cost sensors for urban PM2.5 monitoring: field calibration, uncertainty estimation, and application 

      Hassani, Amirhossein; Castell, Nuria; Watne, Ågot K.; Schneider, Philipp (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Research communities, engagement campaigns, and administrative agents are increasingly valuing low-cost air-quality monitoring technologies, despite data quality concerns. Mobile low-cost sensors have already been used for ...

    • Implications of Regurgitative Feeding on Plastic Loads in Northern Fulmars (Fulmarus glacialis): A Study from Svalbard 

      Tulatz, Felix; Gabrielsen, Geir Wing; Bourgeon, Sophie; Herzke, Dorte; Krapp, Rupert; Langset, Magdalene; Neumann, Svenja; Lippold, Anna; Collard, France (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Procellariiform seabirds like northern fulmars (Fulmarus glacialis) are prone to ingest and accumulate floating plastic pieces. In the North Sea region, there is a long tradition to use beached fulmars as biomonitors for ...

    • Polybrominated diphenyl ethers in type 2 diabetes mellitus cases and controls: Repeated measurements prior to and after diagnosis 

      Charles, Dolley; Berg, Vivian; Nøst, Therese Haugdahl; Wilsgaard, Tom; Bergdahl, Ingvar A.; Huber, Sandra; Ayotte, Pierre; Averina, Maria; Sandanger, Torkjel M; Rylander, Karin Charlotta Maria (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)

    • The influence of vegetation drought stress on formaldehyde and ozone distributions over a central European city 

      Trimmel, Heidelinde; Hamer, Paul David; Mayer, Monika; Schreier, Stefan F.; Weihs, Philipp; Eitzinger, Josef; Sandén, Hans; Fitzky, Anne Charlott; Richter, Andreas; Calvet, Jean-Christophe; Bonan, Bertrand; Meurey, Catherine; Vallejo, Islen; Eckhardt, Sabine; Sousa Santos, Gabriela; Oumami, Safae; Arteta, Joaquim; Marécal, Virginie; Tarrasón, Leonor; Karl, Thomas; Rieder, Harald E. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      To estimate the effect of vegetation stress and changes in biogenic volatile organic compound (BVOC) emissions on urban ozone (O3) levels we perform a systematic, observation-based analysis of the relationship between ...

    • Establishment of killer whale (Orcinus orca) primary fibroblast cell cultures and their transcriptomic responses to pollutant exposure 

      Bjørneset, Juni; Blévin, Pierre; Bjørnstad, Pål Marius; Dalmo, Roy Ambli; Goksøyr, Anders; Harju, Mikael; Yadetie, Fekadu; Routti, Heli Anna Irmeli (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Populations of killer whale (Orcinus orca) contain some of the most polluted animals on Earth. Yet, the knowledge on effects of chemical pollutants is limited in this species. Cell cultures and in vitro exposure experiments ...

    • Response of Total Column Ozone at High Latitudes to Sudden Stratospheric Warmings 

      Hocke, Klemens; Sauvageat, Eric; Bernet, Leonie (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      The total column ozone (TCO) at northern high latitudes is increased over a course of 1–2 months after a major sudden stratospheric warming as a consequence of enhanced ozone eddy transport and diffusive ozone fluxes. We ...

    • Utslipp og spredning av Radon-220 fra Oncoinvent, Nydalen. Underlag for utslippssøknad. 

      Grythe, Henrik; Berglen, Tore Flatlandsmo; Evangeliou, Nikolaos; Cassiani, Massimo; Solberg, Sverre (NILU rapport;8/2022, Research report, 2022)
      NILU har studert og vurdert utslipp til luft av radon-220 fra Oncoinvent AS i Nydalen i Oslo. Studien danner underlag for utslippssøknad. Årlig omsøkt utslipp er 70 GBq. Det største bidraget til dose/eksponering kommer fra ...

    • Tiltaksutredning for lokal luftkvalitet i Lørenskog kommune 

      Høiskar, Britt Ann Kåstad; Walker, Sam-Erik; Weydahl, Torleif; Markelj, Miha; Andersen, André; Lopez-Aparicio, Susana; Grythe, Henrik (NILU rapport;32/2022, Research report, 2023)
      NILU – Norsk institutt for luftforskning har, i samarbeid med Transportanalyse AS, utarbeidet en tiltaksutredning for bedre luftkvalitet i Lørenskog. Utredningen er gjennomført på oppdrag av Lørenskog kommune. Tiltaksutredningen ...

    • Total ozone trends at three northern high-latitude stations 

      Bernet, Leonie; Svendby, Tove Marit; Hansen, Georg Heinrich; Orsolini, Yvan; Dahlback, Arne; Goutail, Florence; Pazmino, Andrea; Petkov, Boyan; Kylling, Arve (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      After the decrease of ozone-depleting substances (ODSs) as a consequence of the Montreal Protocol, it is still challenging to detect a recovery in the total column amount of ozone (total ozone) at northern high latitudes. ...

    • Painted Wood Climate Risk Analysis by the HERIe Model of Building Protection and Conservation Heating Scenarios in Norwegian Medieval Stone Churches 

      Grøntoft, Terje; Stoveland, Lena Porsmo (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      HERIe was used to model the effect of changes to indoor climate on the risk of humidity-induced mechanical damage (cracking and plastic deformation) to wooden panels painted with stiff gesso in two Norwegian medieval stone ...

    • Mercury isotope evidence for Arctic summertime re-emission of mercury from the cryosphere 

      Araujo, Beatriz Ferreira; Osterwalder, Stefan; Szponar, Natalie; Lee, Domenica; Petrova, Mariia V.; Pernov, Jakob Boyd; Ahmed, Shaddy; Heimbürger-Boavida, Lars-Eric; Laffont, Laure; Teisserenc, Roman; Tananaev, Nikita; Nordstrom, Claus; Magand, Olivier; Stupple, Geoff; Skov, Henrik; Steffen, Alexandra; Bergquist, Bridget; Pfaffhuber, Katrine Aspmo; Thomas, Jennie L.; Scheper, Simon; Petäjä, Tuukka; Dommergue, Aurélien; Sonke, Jeroen E. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      During Arctic springtime, halogen radicals oxidize atmospheric elemental mercury (Hg0), which deposits to the cryosphere. This is followed by a summertime atmospheric Hg0 peak that is thought to result mostly from terrestrial ...

    • Seasonal and latitudinal variability in the atmospheric concentrations of cyclic volatile methyl siloxanes in the Northern Hemisphere 

      Wania, Frank; Warner, Nicholas Alexander; McLachlan, Michael S; Durham, Jeremy; Lei, Ying Duan; Xu, Shihe (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Field data from two latitudinal transects in Europe and Canada were gathered to better characterize the atmospheric fate of three cyclic methylsiloxanes (cVMSs), i.e., octamethyl-cyclotetrasiloxane (D4), decamethylcyclop ...