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    • 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 ...
    • Technical recommendations to perform the alkaline standard and enzyme-modified comet assay in human biomonitoring studies 

      Azqueta, Amaya; Muruzabal, Damian; Boutet-Robinet, Elisa; Milic, Mirta; Dusinska, Maria; Brunborg, Gunnar; Møller, Peter; Collins, Andrew R. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
    • Recent Trends in Maintenance Costs for Façades Due to Air Pollution in the Oslo Quadrature, Norway 

      Grøntoft, Terje (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      This study assesses changes since 1980 in the maintenance cost of the façades of the historical 17th to 19th century buildings of the Oslo Quadrature, Norway, due to atmospheric chemical wear, including the influence of ...
    • Monitoring of environmental contaminants in air and precipitation, annual report 2018 

      Bohlin-Nizzetto, Pernilla; Aas, Wenche; Nikiforov, Vladimir (NILU report;11/2019, Research report, 2019)
      This report presents environmental monitoring data from 2018 and time-trends for the Norwegian programme for Long-range atmospheric transported contaminants. The results cover 200 organic compounds (regulated and non-regulated), ...
    • Interactions between the atmosphere, cryosphere, and ecosystems at northern high latitudes 

      Boy, Michael; Thomson, Erik S.; Acosta Navarro, Juan-Camilo; Arnalds, Olafur; Batchvarova, Ekaterina; Bäck, Jaana; Berninger, Frank; Bilde, Merete; Brasseur, Zoe; Dagsson-Waldhauserova, Pavla; Castarede, Dimitri; Dalirian, Maryam; de Leeuw, Gerrit; Dragosics, Monika; Duplissy, Ella-Maria; Duplissy, Jonathan; Ekman, Annica; Fang, Keyan; Gallet, Jean-Charles; Glasius, Marianne; Gryning, Sven-Erik; Grythe, Henrik; Hansson, Hans-Christen; Hansson, Margareta; Isaksson, Elisabeth; Iversen, Trond; Jónsdóttir, Ingibjörg Svala; Kasurinen, Ville; Kirkevåg, Alf; Korhola, Atte; Krejci, Radovan; Kristjansson, Jon Egill; Lappalainen, Hanna K.; Lauri, Antti; Leppäranta, Matti; Lihavainen, Heikki; Makkonen, Risto; Massling, Andreas; Meinander, Outi; Nilsson, E. Douglas; Ólafsson, Haraldur; Pettersson, Jan B. C.; Prisle, Nønne L.; Riipinen, Ilona; Roldin, Pontus; Ruppel, Meri; Salter, Matthew E.; Sand, Maria; Seland, Øyvind; Seppä, Heikki; Skov, Henrik; Soares, Joana; Stohl, Andreas; Ström, Johan; Svensson, Jonas; Swietlicki, Erik; Tabakova, Ksenia; Thorsteinsson, Throstur; Virkkula, Aki; Weyhenmeyer, Gesa A.; Wu, Yusheng; Zieger, Paul; Kulmala, Markku (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      The Nordic Centre of Excellence CRAICC (Cryosphere–Atmosphere Interactions in a Changing Arctic Climate), funded by NordForsk in the years 2011–2016, is the largest joint Nordic research and innovation initiative to date, ...
    • Using elemental analyses and multivariate statistics to identify the off-site dispersion from informal e-waste processing 

      Mudge, Stephen Michael; Pfaffhuber, Katrine Aspmo; Fobil, Julis N.; Bouman, Evert; Uggerud, Hilde Thelle; Thorne, Rebecca Jayne (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
    • Monitoring of long-range transported air pollutants in Norway. Annual report 2018. 

      Aas, Wenche; Fiebig, Markus; Solberg, Sverre; Yttri, Karl Espen (NILU report;8/2019, Research report, 2019)
      This report presents results from the monitoring of atmospheric composition and deposition of air pollution in 2018, and focuses on main components in air and precipitation, particulate and gaseous phase of inorganic ...
    • Screening new PFAS compounds 2018 

      Hanssen, Linda; Herzke, Dorte; Nikiforov, Vladimir; Moe, Børge; Nygård, Torgeir; van Dijk, Jiska Joanneke; Gabrielsen, Geir Wing; Fuglei, Eva; Yeung, Leo; Vogelsang, Christian; Carlsson, Pernilla Marianne (NILU report;23/2019, Research report, 2019)
      This screening project has focused on the occurrence of conventional and emerging PFASs in terrestrial and marine environments, including the Arctic. Conventional PFASs were found to be wide-spread in the environment and ...
    • Monitoring of the atmospheric ozone layer and natural ultraviolet radiation. Annual Report 2018. 

      Svendby, Tove Marit; Hansen, Georg Heinrich; Bäcklund, Are; Dahlback, Arne (NILU report;17/2019, Research report, 2019)
      This report summarizes the results from the Norwegian monitoring programme on stratospheric ozone and UV radiation measurements. The ozone layer has been measured at three locations since 1979: in Oslo, Tromsø/Andøya and ...
    • Environmental pollutants in the terrestrial and urban environment 2018 

      Heimstad, Eldbjørg Sofie; Nygård, Torgeir; Herzke, Dorte; Bohlin-Nizzetto, Pernilla (NILU report;19/2019, Research report, 2019)
      Samples from the urban terrestrial environment in the Oslo area were analysed for various inorganic and organic environmental pollutants. The selected species were earthworm, fieldfare, sparrowhawk, brown rat, red fox and ...
    • Monitoring of greenhouse gases and aerosols at Svalbard and Birkenes in 2018. Annual report. 

      Myhre, Cathrine Lund; Svendby, Tove Marit; Hermansen, Ove; Lunder, Chris Rene; Platt, Stephen Matthew; Fiebig, Markus; Fjæraa, Ann Mari; Hansen, Georg Heinrich; Schmidbauer, Norbert; Krognes, Terje; Walker, Sam-Erik (NILU report;18/2019, Research report, 2019)
      The report summaries the activities and results of the greenhouse gas monitoring at the Zeppelin Observatory situated on Svalbard in Arctic Norway during the period 2001-2018, and the greenhouse gas monitoring and aerosol ...
    • The strength in numbers: comprehensive characterization of house dust using complementary mass spectrometric techniques 

      Rostkowski, Pawel Marian; Haglund, Peter; Aalizadeh, Reza; Alygizakis, Nikiforos; Thomaidis, Nikolaos; Arandes, J.; Bohlin-Nizzetto, Pernilla; Booij, P.; Budzinski, Hélène; Brunswick, Pamela; Covaci, Adrian; Gallampois, Christine; Grosse, Sylvia; Hindle, R.; Ipolyi, Ildiko; Jobst, Karl; Kaserzon, Sarit; Leonards, Pim; Lestremau, F.; Letzel, Thomas; Magnér, Jörgen; Matsukami, Hidenori; Moschet, C.; Oswald, Peter; Plassmann, M.; Slobodnik, Jaroslav; Yang, Chun (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Untargeted analysis of a composite house dust sample has been performed as part of a collaborative effort to evaluate the progress in the field of suspect and nontarget screening and build an extensive database of organic ...
    • Screening program 2018. Volatiles, Gd, BADGE, UV filters, Additives, and Medicines. 

      Schlabach, Martin; Halse, Anne Karine; Kringstad, Alfhild; Nikiforov, Vladimir; Bohlin-Nizzetto, Pernilla; Pfaffhuber, Katrine Aspmo; Reid, Malcolm James; Rostkowski, Pawel Marian; Vogelsang, Christian (NILU report;20/2019, Research report, 2019)
      This screening project has focused on the occurrence and environmental fate of chemicals with possible PBT-properties. Samples were from indoor environments, surface waters, municipal wastewater, and the receiving marine ...
    • Effects of Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles on the Hprt Gene Mutations in V79 Hamster Cells 

      Kazimirova, Alena; El Yamani, Naouale; Rubio, Laura; Garcia-Rodriguez, Alba; Barancokova, Magdalena; Marcos, Ricard; Dusinska, Maria (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      The genotoxicity of anatase/rutile TiO2 nanoparticles (TiO2 NPs, NM105 at 3, 15 and 75 µg/cm2) was assessed with the mammalian in-vitro Hypoxanthine guanine phosphoribosyl transferase (Hprt) gene mutation test in Chinese ...
    • Genotoxicity of Nanomaterials: Advanced In Vitro Models and High Throughput Methods for Human Hazard Assessment - A Review 

      Kohl, Yvonne; Rundén-Pran, Elise; Mariussen, Espen; Hesler, Michelle; El Yamani, Naouale; Longhin, Eleonora Marte; Dusinska, Maria (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Changes in the genetic material can lead to serious human health defects, as mutations in somatic cells may cause cancer and can contribute to other chronic diseases. Genotoxic events can appear at both the DNA, chromosomal ...
    • Impact of late spring Siberian snow on summer rainfall in South-Central China 

      Shen, Haibo; Li, Fei; He, Shengping; Orsolini, Yvan; Li, Jingyi (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Located in the Yangtze River Valley and surrounded by mountains, South-Central China (SCC) frequently suffered from natural disasters such as torrential precipitation, landslide and debris flow. Here we provide corroborative ...
    • Validation of SMILES HCl profiles over a wide range from the stratosphere to the lower thermosphere 

      Nara, Seidai; Sato, Tomohiro O.; Yamada, Takayoshi; Fujinawa, Tamaki; Kuribayashi, Kota; Manabe, Takeshi; Froidevaux, Lucien; Livesey, Nathaniel J.; Walker, Kaley A.; Xu, Jian; Schreier, Franz; Orsolini, Yvan; Limpasuvan, Varavut; Kuno, Nario; Kasai, Yasuko (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Hydrogen chloride (HCl) is the most abundant (more than 95 %) among inorganic chlorine compounds Cly in the upper stratosphere. The HCl molecule is observed to obtain long-term quantitative estimations of the total budget ...
    • 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 ...
    • The regional European atmospheric transport inversion comparison, EUROCOM: first results on European-wide terrestrial carbon fluxes for the period 2006–2015 

      Monteil, Guillaume; Broquet, Grégoire; Scholze, Marko; Lang, Matthew; Karstens, Ute; Gerbig, Christoph; Koch, Frank-Thomas; Smith, Naomi; Thompson, Rona Louise; Luijkx, Ingrid T.; White, Emily; Meesters, Antoon; Ciais, Philippe; Ganesan, Anita L.; Manning, Alistair; Mischurow, Michael; Peters, Wouter; Peylin, Philippe; Tarniewicz, Jerome; Rigby, Matt; Rödenbeck, Christian; Vermeulen, Alex; Walton, Evie M. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Atmospheric inversions have been used for the past two decades to derive large-scale constraints on the sources and sinks of CO2 into the atmosphere. The development of dense in situ surface observation networks, such as ...
    • The urban dispersion model EPISODE v10.0 – Part 1: An Eulerian and sub-grid-scale air quality model and its application in Nordic winter conditions 

      Hamer, Paul David; Walker, Sam-Erik; Sousa Santos, Gabriela; Vogt, Matthias; Vo, Dam Thanh; Lopez-Aparicio, Susana; Schneider, Philipp; Ramacher, Martin O. P.; Karl, Matthias (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      This paper describes the Eulerian urban dispersion model EPISODE. EPISODE was developed to address a need for an urban air quality model in support of policy, planning, and air quality management in the Nordic, specifically ...