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    • Multi-decadal surface ozone trends at globally distributed remote locations 

      Cooper, Owen R.; Schultz, Martin G.; Schroeder, Sabine; Chang, Kai-Lan; Gaudel, Audrey; Benitez, Gerardo Carbajal; Cuevas, Emilio; Frölich, Marina; Galbally, Ian E.; Molloy, Suzie; Kubistin, Dagmar; Lu, Xiao; McClure-Begley, Audra; Nédélec, Philippe; O'Brien, Jason; Oltmans, Samuel J.; Petropavlovskikh, Irina; Ries, Ludwig; Senik, Irina; Sjöberg, Karin; Solberg, Sverre; Spain, Gerard T.; Spangl, Wolfgang; Steinbacher, Martin; Tarasick, David; Thouret, Valérie; Xu, Xiaobin (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Extracting globally representative trend information from lower tropospheric ozone observations is extremely difficult due to the highly variable distribution and interannual variability of ozone, and the ongoing shift of ...
    • Evaluation of climate model aerosol trends with ground-based observations over the last 2 decades – an AeroCom and CMIP6 analysis 

      Mortier, Augustin; Gliss, Jonas; Schulz, Michael; Aas, Wenche; Andrews, Elisabeth; Bian, Huisheng; Chin, Mian; Ginoux, Paul; Hand, Jenny; Holben, Brent; Zhang, Hua; Kipling, Zak; Kirkevåg, Alf; Laj, Paolo; Lurton, Thibault; Myhre, Gunnar; Neubauer, David; Oliviè, Dirk Jan Leo; Salzen, Knut von; Skeie, Ragnhild Bieltvedt; Takemura, Toshihiko; Tilmes, Simone (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      This study presents a multiparameter analysis of aerosol trends over the last 2 decades at regional and global scales. Regional time series have been computed for a set of nine optical, chemical-composition and mass aerosol ...
    • Cadmium pollution from zinc‐smelters up to four‐fold higher than expected in western Europe in the 1980s as revealed by alpine ice 

      Legrand, Michel; McConnell, Joseph; Lestel, L.; Preunkert, Susanne; Arienzo, Monica M; Chellman, Nathan J; Stohl, Andreas; Eckhardt, Sabine (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Estimates of past emission inventories suggest that toxic heavy metal pollution in Europe was highest in the mid‐1970s for lead and in the mid‐1960s for cadmium, but these previous estimates have not been compared to ...
    • Common eider and herring gull as contaminant indicators of different ecological niches of an urban fjord system 

      Thorstensen, Helene; Ruus, Anders; Helberg, Morten; Bæk, Kine; Enge, Ellen Katrin; Borgå, Katrine (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Seabirds like gulls are common indicators in contaminant monitoring. The herring gull (Larus argentatus) is a generalist with a broad range of dietary sources, possibly introducing a weakness in its representativeness of ...
    • The NORMAN Association and the European Partnership for Chemicals Risk Assessment (PARC): let’s cooperate! 

      Dulio, Valeria; Koschorreck, Jan; van Bavel, Bert; van den Brink, Paul; Hollender, Juliane; Munthe, John; Schlabach, Martin; Aalizadeh, Reza; Agerstrand, Marlene; Ahrens, Lutz; Allan, Ian; Alygizakis, Nikiforos; Barceló, Damià; Bohlin-Nizzetto, Pernilla; Boutroup, Susanne; Brack, Werner; Bressy, Adele; Christensen, Jan H.; Cirka, Lubos; Covaci, Adrian; Derksen, Anja; Deviller, Genevieve; Dingemans, Milou M. L.; Engwall, Magnus; Fatta-Kassinos, Despo; Gago-Ferrero, Pablo; Hernández, Félix; Herzke, Dorte; Hilscherová, Klára; Hollert, Henner; Junghans, Marion; Kasprzyk-Hordern, Barbara; Keiter, Steffen; Kools, Stefan A. E.; Kruve, Anneli; Lambropoulou, Dimitra; Lamoree, Marja; Leonards, Pim; Lopez, Benjamin; López de Alda, Miren; Lundy, Lian; Makovinská, Jarmila; Marigómez, Ionan; Martin, Jonathan W.; McHugh, Brendan; Miège, Cécile; O'Toole, Simon; Perkola, Noora; Polesello, Stefano; Posthuma, Leo; Rodriguez-Mozaz, Sara; Roessink, Ivo; Rostkowski, Pawel Marian; Ruedel, Heinz; Samanipour, Saer; Schulze, Tobias; Schymanski, Emma L.; Sengl, Manfred; Tarabek, Peter; Hulscher, Dorien Ten; Thomaidis, Nikolaos; Togola, Anne; Valsecchi, Sara; van Leeuwen, Stefan; von der Ohe, Peter; Vorkamp, Katrin; Vrana, Branislav; Slobodnik, Jaroslav (Others, 2020)
      The Partnership for Chemicals Risk Assessment (PARC) is currently under development as a joint research and innovation programme to strengthen the scientific basis for chemical risk assessment in the EU. The plan is to ...
    • Målinger av SO2 i omgivelsene til Elkem Carbon og REC Solar. September 2019 – august 2020. 

      Hak, Claudia (NILU rapport;20/2020, Research report, 2020)
      På oppdrag fra Elkem Carbon AS har NILU utført målinger av SO2 i omgivelsene til Elkem Carbon og REC Solar i Vågsbygd (Kristiansand kommune). Bedriftene ble pålagt av Miljødirektoratet å gjennomføre SO2-målinger i ...
    • Feasibility study for asphalt rubber pavements in Norway. ‘Rubber Road’ feasibility study. 

      Bouman, Evert; Meland, Sondre; Furuseth, Ingvild Skumlien; Tarrasón, Leonor (NILU report;38/2018, Research report, 2020)
      RubberRoad proposes to use rubber from used tires in the production of asphalt for road and bicycle ways. This recycling approach has not gained much attention in Norway despite its apparent advantages, such as noise ...
    • Minimum Information for Reporting on the Comet Assay (MIRCA): recommendations for describing comet assay procedures and results 

      Møller, Peter; Azqueta, Amaya; Boutet-Robinet, Elisa; Koppen, Gudrun; Bonassi, Stefano; Milic, Mirta; Gajski, Goran; Costa, Solange; Teixeira, João Paulo; Pereira, Cristiana Costa; Dusinska, Maria; Godschalk, Roger; Brunborg, Gunnar; Gutzkow, Kristine Bjerve; Giovannelli, Lisa; Cooke, Marcus S.; Richling, Elke; Laffon, Blanca; Valdiglesias, Vanessa; Basaran, Nursen; Del Bo, Cristian; Zegura, Bojana; Novak, Matjaz; Stopper, Helga; Vodicka, Pavel; Vodenkova, Sona; de Andrade, Vanessa Moraes; Srámková, Monika; Gábelová, Alena; Collins, Andrew Richard; Langie, Sabine A.S. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      The comet assay is a widely used test for the detection of DNA damage and repair activity. However, there are interlaboratory differences in reported levels of baseline and induced damage in the same experimental systems. ...
    • Are Sterols Useful for the Identification of Sources of Faecal Contamination in Shellfish? A Case Study. 

      Florini, Styliano; Shahsavari, Esmaeil; Aburto-Medina, Arturo; Khudur, Leadin S.; Mudge, Stephen Michael; Smith, David J.; Ball, Andrew S. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      This work aimed to identify the major source(s) of faecal pollution impacting Salcott Creek oyster fisheries in the UK through the examination of the sterol profiles. The concentration of the major sewage biomarker, ...
    • FLEXPART v10.1 simulation of source contributions to Arctic black carbon 

      Zhu, Chunmao; Kanaya, Yugo; Takigawa, Masayuki; Ikeda, Kohei; Tanimoto, Hiroshi; Taketani, Fumikazu; Miyakawa, Takuma; Kobayashi, Hideki; Pisso, Ignacio (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      The Arctic environment is undergoing rapid changes such as faster warming than the global average and exceptional melting of glaciers in Greenland. Black carbon (BC) particles, which are a short-lived climate pollutant, ...
    • Exposure to PFAS is associated with telomere length dynamics and demographic responses of an arctic top predator 

      Sebastiano, Manrico; Angelier, Frédéric; Blévin, Pierre; Ribout, Cécile; Sagerup, Kjetil; Descamps, Sebastien; Herzke, Dorte; Moe, Børge; Barbarud, Christophe; Bustnes, Jan Ove; Gabrielsen, Geir W.; Chastel, Olivier (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Environmental factors that can influence telomeres are diverse, but the association between telomeres and exposure to environmental contaminants is yet to be elucidated. To date, prior studies have focused on legacy ...
    • Måling av NO2 ved E16/E39 Arna – Vågsbotn – Klauvaneset med passive prøvetakere. Februar og mars 2020. 

      Hak, Claudia (NILU rapport;5/2020, Research report, 2020)
      Kartlegging av NO2-konsentrasjoner i luft ved E16 Arna – Vågsbotn ble utført av NILU på oppdrag fra Statens vegvesen. Målingene ble utført med passive prøvetakere ved 10 steder i området Gaupås-Kalsås-Blinde. Prosjektet ...
    • The fingerprint of the summer 2018 drought in Europe on ground-based atmospheric CO2 measurements 

      Ramonet, Michel; Ciais, Philippe; Apadula, F.; Bartyzel, Jakub; Bastos, Ana; Bergamaschi, Peter; Blanc, P. E.; Brunner, D; Caracciolo di Torchiarolo, L.; Calzolari, F.; Chen, H.; Chmura, L.; Colomb, A.; Conil, S.; Cristofanelli, P.; Cuevas, E.; Curcoll, R.; Delmotte, M.; di Sarra, A.; Emmenegger, L.; Forster, G.; Frumau, A.; Gerbig, C.; Gheusi, F; Hammer, S.; Haszpra, L.; Hatakka, J.; Hazan, L.; Heliasz, M.; Henne, S.; Hensen, A.; Hermansen, Ove; Keronen, P.; Kivi, R.; Kominkova, K.; Kubistin, D.; Laurent, O.; Laurila, T; Lavric, J. V.; Lehner, I.; Lehtinen, K. E. J.; Leskinen, A.; Leuenberger, M.; Levin, I.; Lindauer, M.; Lopez, M.; Myhre, Cathrine Lund; Mammarella, I; Manca, G; Manning, A; Marek, M. V.; Marklund, P.; Martin, D.; Meinhardt, F; Mihalopoulos, N.; Mölder, M.; Morguí, J.A.; Necki, J.; O'Doherty, S.; O'Dowd, C; Ottosson, M.; Philippon, N.; Piacentino, S.; Pichon, J.M.; Plass-Duelmer, C.; Resovsky, A.; Rivier, L; Rodo, X; Sha, M. K.; Scheeren, H. A.; Sferlazzo, D.; Spain, T. G.; Stanley, K. M.; Steinbacher, M.; Trisolino, P.; Vermeulen, A.; Vitkova, G.; Weyrauch, D.; Xueref-Remy, I.; Yala, K.; Kwok, C. Yvwer (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      During the summer of 2018, a widespread drought developed over Northern and Central Europe. The increase in temperature and the reduction of soil moisture have influenced carbon dioxide (CO2) exchange between the atmosphere ...
    • Impact of solar irradiance and geomagnetic activity on polar NOx, ozone and temperature in WACCM simulations 

      Tartaglione, Nazario; Toniazzo, Thomas; Orsolini, Yvan J.; Otterå, Odd Helge (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      The response of the atmosphere to solar irradiance and geomagnetic activity is analyzed in experiments with the Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model (WACCM) under idealized forcings. Four experiments are carried out ...
    • 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 ...
    • Epigenetics in breast cancer therapy—New strategies and future nanomedicine perspectives 

      Buociková, Verona; Rios Mondragon, Ivan; Pilalis, Eleftherios; Chatziioannou, Aristotelis; Miklíková, Svetlana; Mego, Michal; Pajuste, Karlis; Rucins, Martins; El Yamani, Naouale; Longhin, Eleonora Marte; Sobolev, Arkadij; Freixanet, Muriel; Puntes, Victor; Plotniece, Aiva; Dusinska, Maria; Cimpan, Mihaela Roxana; Gábelová, Alena; Smolková, Božena (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Epigenetic dysregulation has been recognized as a critical factor contributing to the development of resistance against standard chemotherapy and to breast cancer progression via epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition. ...
    • Past and Future Grand Challenges in Marine Ecosystem Ecology 

      Borja, Angel; Andersen, Jesper Harbo; Arvanitidis, Christos D.; Basset, Alberto; Buhl-Mortensen, Lene; Carvalho, Susana; Dafforn, Katherine A.; Devlin, Michelle J.; Escobar-Briones, Elva G.; Grenz, Christian; Harder, Tilmann; Katsanevakis, Stelios; Liu, Dongyan; Metaxas, Anna; Moran, Xose Anxelu G; Newton, Alice (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
    • On the tuning of atmospheric inverse methods: comparisons with the European Tracer Experiment (ETEX) and Chernobyl datasets using the atmospheric transport model FLEXPART 

      Tichý, Ondřej; Ulrych, Lukas; Šmídl, Václav; Evangeliou, Nikolaos; Stohl, Andreas (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Estimation of the temporal profile of an atmospheric release, also called the source term, is an important problem in environmental sciences. The problem can be formalized as a linear inverse problem wherein the unknown ...
    • The high persistence of PFAS is sufficient for their management as a chemical class 

      Cousins, Ian T.; Dewitt, Jamie C.; Glüge, Juliane; Goldenman, Gretta; Herzke, Dorte; Lohmann, Rainer; Ng, Carla A.; Scheringer, Martin; Wang, Zhanyun (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are a class of synthetic organic substances with diverse structures, properties, uses, bioaccumulation potentials and toxicities. Despite this high diversity, all PFAS are alike ...
    • Public Perception of Urban Air Quality Using Volunteered GeographicInformation Services 

      Grossberndt, Sonja; Schneider, Philipp; Liu, Hai-Ying; Fredriksen, Mirjam; Castell, Nuria; Syropoulou, Panagiota; Bartonova, Alena (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Investigating perceived air quality (AQ) in urban areas is a rather new topic of interest. Papers presenting results from studies on perception of AQ have thus far focused on the individual characteristics leading to a ...