• Impacts of UV irradiance and medium-energy electron precipitation on the North Atlantic oscillation during the 11-year solar cycle 

      Guttu, Sigmund; Orsolini, Yvan; Stordal, Frode; Otterå, Odd Helge; Omrani, Nour-Eddine; Tartaglione, Nazario; Verronen, Pekka T.; Rodger, Craig J.; Clilverd, Mark A. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Observational studies suggest that part of the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) variability may be attributed to the spectral ultra-violet (UV) irradiance variations associated to the 11-year solar cycle. The observed ...
    • Målinger av PM10 i Lohavn. April og mai 2020. 

      Hak, Claudia; Tønnesen, Dag Arild (NILU rapport;26/2020, Research report, 2021)
      NILU – Norsk institutt for luftforskning har på oppdrag fra HAV Eiendom utført målinger av svevestøv (PM10) i Lohavn i Oslo. Området skal utvikles til et nytt byområde med boliger, skole, utearealer og næring. PM-konsentrasjonen ...
    • Ozone measurements 2019 

      Hjellbrekke, Anne-Gunn; Solberg, Sverre (EMEP/CCC-Report;2/2021, Research report, 2021)
    • PAH measurements at Lista. January 2020 – December 2020. 

      Hak, Claudia (NILU report;11/2021, Research report, 2021)
      On behalf of Aluminiumindustriens Miljøsekretariat (AMS) and Alcoa Lista, NILU – Norwegian institute for air research has conducted a sampling campaign in the surroundings of the Alcoa Lista aluminium smelter in order to ...
    • Beregning av luftkvalitet ved Bjørnheimveien 26 

      Tønnesen, Dag Arild; Weydahl, Torleif (NILU rapport;15/2021, Research report, 2021)
      NILU har blitt engasjert av Prem Partners II A/S for å vurdere utbredelse av luftsoner for dagens situasjon og en framtidig situasjon med foreslått boligblokk i Bjørnheimveien 26. Det er anvendt en Gaussisk spredningsmodell ...
    • Data Report 2019. Particulate matter, carbonaceous and inorganic compounds. 

      Hjellbrekke, Anne-Gunn (EMEP/CCC-Report;1/2021, Research report, 2021)
    • Reviews and syntheses: Arctic fire regimes and emissions in the 21st century 

      McCarty, Jessica L.; Aalto, Juha; Paunu, Ville-Veikko; Arnold, Steve R.; Eckhardt, Sabine; Klimont, Zbigniew; Fain, Justin; Evangeliou, Nikolaos; Venäläinen, Ari; Tchebakova, Nadezhda M.; Parfenova, Elena I.; Kupiainen, Kaarle; Soja, Amber J.; Huang, Lin; Wilson, Simon (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      In recent years, the pan-Arctic region has experienced increasingly extreme fire seasons. Fires in the northern high latitudes are driven by current and future climate change, lightning, fuel conditions, and human activity. ...
    • A strategy towards the generation of testable adverse outcome pathways for nanomaterials 

      Murugadoss, Sivakumar; Vrcek, Ivana Vinkovic; Pem, Barbara; Jagiello, Karolina; Judzinska, Beata; Sosnowska, Anita; Martens, Marvin; Willighagen, Egon L.; Puzyn, Tomasz; Dusinska, Maria; Cimpan, Mihaela-Roxana; Fessard, Valérie; Hoet, Peter H. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Manufactured nanomaterials (NMs) are increasingly used in a wide range of industrial applications leading to a constant increase in the market size of nano-enabled products. The increased production and use of NMs are ...
    • Historical dry deposition of air pollution in the urban background in Oslo, Norway, compared to Western European data 

      Grøntoft, Terje (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      The historical (1835–2020) dry deposition of major air pollutants (SO2, NOx, O3 and PM2.5) in the urban background in Oslo, Norway, in a situation that could represent the building facades, was approximated from reported ...
    • Emissions of Tetrafluoromethane (CF4) and Hexafluoroethane (C2F6) From East Asia: 2008 to 2019 

      Kim, Jooil; Thompson, Rona Louise; Park, Hyeri; Bogle, Stephanie; Mühle, Jens; Park, Mi-Kyung; Kim, Yeaseul; Harth, Christina M.; Salameh, Peter K.; Schmidt, Roland; Ottinger, Deborah; Park, Sunyoung; Weiss, Ray F. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      The perfluorocarbons (PFCs), tetrafluoromethane (CF4) and hexafluoroethane (C2F6), are potent greenhouse gases with very long atmospheric lifetimes. They are emitted almost entirely from industrial sources, including the ...
    • Introducing a nested multimedia fate and transport model for organic contaminants (NEM) 

      Breivik, Knut; Eckhardt, Sabine; McLachlan, Michael S; Wania, Frank (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Some organic contaminants, including the persistent organic pollutants (POPs), have achieved global distribution through long range atmospheric transport (LRAT). Regulatory efforts, monitoring programs and modelling studies ...
    • DNA damage in circulating leukocytes measured with the comet assay may predict the risk of death 

      Bonassi, Stefano; Ceppi, Marcello; Møller, Peter; Azqueta, Amaya; Milic, Mirta; Neri, Monica; Brunborg, Gunnar; Godschalk, Roger; Koppen, Gudrun; Langie, Sabine A. S.; Teixeira, João Paulo; Bruzzone, Marco; Da Silva, Juliana; Benedetti, Danieli; Cavallo, Delia; Ursini, Cinzia Lucia; Giovannelli, Lisa; Moretti, Silvia; Riso, Patrizia; Del Bo, Cristian; Russo, Patrizia; Dobrzynska, Malgorzata; Goroshinskaya, Irina A.; Surikova, Ekaterina I.; Staruchova, Marta; Barancokova, Magdalena; Volkovova, Katarina; Kažimirova, Alena; Smolkova, Bozena; Laffon, Blanca; Valdiglesias, Vanessa; Pastor, Susana; Marcos, Ricard; Hernández, Alba; Gajski, Goran; Spremo-Potparević, Biljana; Zivkovic, Lada; Boutet-Robinet, Elisa; Perdry, Hervé; Lebailly, Pierre; Perez, Carlos L.; Basaran, Nursen; Nemeth, Zsuzsanna; Safar, Anna; Dusinska, Maria; Collins, Andrew Richard (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      The comet assay or single cell gel electrophoresis, is the most common method used to measure strand breaks and a variety of other DNA lesions in human populations. To estimate the risk of overall mortality, mortality by ...
    • Finding essentiality feasible: common questions and misinterpretations concerning the “essential-use” concept 

      Cousins, Ian T.; Dewitt, Jamie C.; Glüge, Juliane; Goldenman, Gretta; Herzke, Dorte; Lohmann, Rainer; Miller, Mark; Ng, Carla A.; Patton, Sharyle; Scheringer, Martin; Trier, Xenia; Wang, Zhanyun (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      The essential-use concept is a tool that can guide the phase-out of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and potentially other substances of concern. This concept is a novel approach to chemicals management that ...
    • Cloud-scale modelling of the impact of deep convection on the fate of oceanic bromoform in the troposphere: a case study over the west coast of Borneo 

      Hamer, Paul David; Marécal, Virginie; Hossaini, Ryan; Pirre, Michel; Krysztofiak, Gisele; Ziska, Franziska; Engel, Andreas; Sala, Stephan; Keber, Timo; Bönisch, Harald; Atlas, Elliot; Krüger, Kirstin; Chipperfield, Martyn P. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      This paper presents a modelling study on the fate of CHBr3 and its product gases in the troposphere within the context of tropical deep convection. A cloud-scale case study was conducted along the west coast of Borneo, ...
    • Real-time UV index retrieval in Europe using Earth observation-based techniques: system description and quality assessment 

      Kosmopoulos, Panagiotis G.; Kazadzis, Stelios; Schmalwieser, Alois W.; Raptis, Panagiotis I.; Papachristopoulou, Kyriakoula; Fountoulakis, Ilias; Masoom, Akriti; Bais, Alkiviadis F.; Bilbao, Julia; Blumthaler, Mario; Kreuter, Axel; Siani, Anna Maria; Eleftheratos, Kostas; Topaloglou, Chrystanthi; Gröbner, Julian; Johnsen, Bjørn; Svendby, Tove Marit (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      This study introduces an Earth observation (EO)-based system which is capable of operationally estimating and continuously monitoring the ultraviolet index (UVI) in Europe. UVIOS (i.e., UV-Index Operating System) exploits ...
    • Knowledge architecture for the wise governance of sustainability transitions 

      Oliver, Tom H.; Benini, Lorenzo; Borja, Angel; Dupont, Claire; Doherty, Bob; Grodzinska-Jurczak, Malgorzata; Iglesias, Ana; Jordan, Andrew; Kass, Gary; Lung, Tobias; Maguire, Kathy; McGonigle, Dan; Mickwitz, Per; Spangenberg, Joachim H.; Tarrasón, Leonor (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      The need for sustainability transitions is widely recognised, along with a concurrent need for the evolution of knowledge systems to inform more effective policy action. Although there are many new policy targets relating ...
    • Global intercomparison of polyurethane foam passive air samplers evaluating sources of variability in SVOC measurements 

      Melymuk, Lisa; Bohlin-Nizzetto, Pernilla; Harner, Tom; White, Kevin B.; Wang, Xianyu; Tominaga, Maria Yumiko; He, Jun; Li, Jun; Ma, Jianmin; Ma, Wan-Lin; Aristizábal, Beatriz H.; Dreyer, Annekatrin; Jiménez, Begoña; Muñoz-Arnanz, Juan; Odabasi, Mustafa; Dumanoglu, Yetikin; Yaman, Baris; Graf, Carola; Sweetman, Andrew; Klánova, Jana (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Polyurethane foam passive air samplers (PUF-PAS) are the most common type of passive air sampler used for a range of semi-volatile organic compounds (SVOCs), including regulated persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and ...
    • Growing Atmospheric Emissions of Sulfuryl Fluoride 

      Gressent, Alicia; Rigby, Matthew; Ganesan, Anita L.; Prinn, Ronald G.; Manning, Alistair J.; Mühle, Jens; Salameh, Peter K.; Krummel, Paul; Fraser, Paul J.; Steele, Paul; Mitrevski, Blagoj; Weiss, Ray F.; Harth, Christina M.; Wang, Ray H.; O'Doherty, S.; Young, Dickon; Park, Sunyoung; Li, S.; Yao, Bo; Reimann, Stefan; Vollmer, Martin K.; Maione, Michela; Arduini, Jgor; Lunder, Chris Rene (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      The potent greenhouse gas sulfuryl fluoride (SO2F2) is increasingly used as a fumigant, replacing methyl bromide, whose structural and soil fumigation uses have been phased out under the Montreal Protocol. We use measurements ...
    • Tackling Data Quality When Using Low-Cost Air Quality Sensors in Citizen Science Projects 

      Watne, Ågot K.; Linden, Jenny; Willhelmsson, Jens; Fridén, Håkan; Gustafsson, Malin; Castell, Nuria (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Using low-cost air quality sensors (LCS) in citizen science projects opens many possibilities. LCS can provide an opportunity for the citizens to collect and contribute with their own air quality data. However, low data ...