• Monitoring of environmental contaminants in air and precipitation. Annual report 2021. 

      Bohlin-Nizzetto, Pernilla; Aas, Wenche; Halvorsen, Helene Lunder; Nikiforov, Vladimir; Pfaffhuber, Katrine Aspmo (NILU report;19/2022, Research report, 2022)
      This report presents data from 2021 and time-trends for the Norwegian monitoring programme "Atmospheric contaminants". The results cover 200 organic compounds (regulated and non-regulated), 11 heavy metals, and a selection ...
    • Ozone measurements 2020 

      Hjellbrekke, Anne-Gunn; Solberg, Sverre (EMEP/CCC-Report;2/2022, Research report, 2022)
    • Machine Learning-Based Digital Twin for Predictive Modeling in Wind Turbines 

      Fahim, Muhammad; Sharma, Vishal; Cao, Tuan-Vu; Canberk, Berk; Duong, Trung Q. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Wind turbines are one of the primary sources of renewable energy, which leads to a sustainable and efficient energy solution. It does not release any carbon emissions to pollute our planet. The wind farms monitoring and ...
    • Hydro Aluminium AS. Measurements of CF4 and C2F6 emissions from Norsk Hydro's aluminium smelter at Husnes, Norway. 

      Schmidbauer, Norbert; Hermansen, Ove; Lunder, Chris Rene (NILU report;04/2022, Research report, 2022)
      NILU and Hydro Aluminium performed a test campaign for measurements of CF4 and C2F6 for stack emissions at Husnes Aluminium Smelter. Time-integrated samples were taken with evacuated canisters combined with low-flow ...
    • Elucidating the present-day chemical composition, seasonality and source regions of climate-relevant aerosols across the Arctic land surface 

      Moschos, Vaios; Schmale, Julia; Aas, Wenche; Becagli, Silvia; Calzolai, Giulia; Eleftheriadis, Konstantinos; Moffett, Claire E.; Schnelle-Kreis, Jürgen; Severi, Mirko; Sharma, Sangeeta; Skov, Henrik; Vestenius, Mika; Zhang, Wendy; Hakola, Hannele; Hellén, Heidi; Huang, Lin; Jaffrezo, Jean-Luc; Massling, Andreas; Nøjgaard, Jacob Klenø; Petäjä, Tuukka; Popovicheva, Olga; Sheesley, Rebecca J.; Traversi, Rita; Yttri, Karl Espen; Prévôt, André S. H.; Baltensperger, Urs; El Haddad, Imad (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      The Arctic is warming two to three times faster than the global average, and the role of aerosols is not well constrained. Aerosol number concentrations can be very low in remote environments, rendering local cloud radiative ...
    • Equal abundance of summertime natural and wintertime anthropogenic Arctic organic aerosols 

      Moschos, Vaios; Dzepina, Katja; Bhattu, Deepika; Lamkaddam, Houssni; Casotto, Roberto; Daellenbach, Kaspar R.; Canonaco, Francesco; Rai, Pragati; Aas, Wenche; Becagli, Silvia; Calzolai, Giulia; Eleftheriadis, Konstantinos; Moffett, Claire E.; Schnelle-Kreis, Jürgen; Seviri, Mirko; Sharma, Sangeeta; Skov, Henrik; Vestenius, Mika; Zhang, Wendy; Hakola, Hannele; Hellén, Heidi; Huang, Lin; Jaffrezo, Jean-Luc; Massling, Andreas; Nøjgaard, Jacob Klenø; Petäjä, Tuukka; Popovicheva, Olga; Sheesley, Rebecca J.; Traversi, Rita; Yttri, Karl Espen; Schmale, Julia; Prévôt, André S. H.; Baltensperger, Urs; El Haddad, Imad (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Aerosols play an important yet uncertain role in modulating the radiation balance of the sensitive Arctic atmosphere. Organic aerosol is one of the most abundant, yet least understood, fractions of the Arctic aerosol mass. ...
    • The influence of photochemistry on outdoor to indoor NO2 in some European museums 

      Grøntoft, Terje (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      This paper reports 1 year of monthly average NO2 indoor to outdoor (I/O) concentrations measured in 10 European museums, and a simple steady-state box model that explains the annual variation. The measurements were performed ...
    • Atmospheric composition in the European Arctic and 30 years of the Zeppelin Observatory, Ny-Ålesund 

      Platt, Stephen Matthew; Hov, Øystein; Berg, Torunn; Breivik, Knut; Eckhardt, Sabine; Eleftheriadis, Konstantinos; Evangeliou, Nikolaos; Fiebig, Markus; Fisher, Rebecca; Hansen, Georg Heinrich; Hansson, Hans-Christen; Heintzenberg, Jost; Hermansen, Ove; Heslin-Rees, Dominic; Holmén, Kim; Hudson, Stephen; Kallenborn, Roland; Krejci, Radovan; Krognes, Terje; Larssen, Steinar; Lowry, David; Myhre, Cathrine Lund; Lunder, Chris Rene; Nisbet, Euan; Bohlin-Nizzetto, Pernilla; Park, Ki-Tae; Pedersen, Christina Alsvik; Pfaffhuber, Katrine Aspmo; Röckmann, Thomas; Schmidbauer, Norbert; Solberg, Sverre; Stohl, Andreas; Ström, Johan; Svendby, Tove Marit; Tunved, Peter; Tørnkvist, Kjersti Karlsen; van der Veen, Carina; Vratolis, Stergios; Jun Yoon, Young; Yttri, Karl Espen; Zieger, Paul; Aas, Wenche; Tørseth, Kjetil (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      The Zeppelin Observatory (78.90∘ N, 11.88∘ E) is located on Zeppelin Mountain at 472 m a.s.l. on Spitsbergen, the largest island of the Svalbard archipelago. Established in 1989, the observatory is part of Ny-Ålesund ...
    • 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. ...
    • Impact of 3D cloud structures on the atmospheric trace gas products from UV–Vis sounders – Part 2: Impact on NO2 retrieval and mitigation strategies 

      Yu, Huan; Emde, Claudia; Kylling, Arve; Veihelmann, Ben; Mayer, Bernhard; Stebel, Kerstin; Van Roozendael, Michel (Journal article, 2022)
      Operational retrievals of tropospheric trace gases from space-borne spectrometers are based on one-dimensional radiative transfer models. To minimize cloud effects, trace gas retrievals generally implement a simple cloud ...
    • Integument carotenoid-based colouration reflects contamination to perfluoroalkyl substances, but not mercury, in arctic black-legged kittiwakes 

      Costantini, David; Blévin, Pierre; Bustnes, Jan Ove; Esteve, Valérie; Gabrielsen, Geir Wing; Herzke, Dorte; Humann-Guilleminot, Ségolène; Moe, Børge; Parenteau, Charline; Récapet, Charlotte; Bustamante, Paco; Chastel, Olivier (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Anthropogenic activities are introducing multiple chemical contaminants into ecosystems that act as stressors for wildlife. Perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and mercury (Hg) are two relevant contaminants that may cause ...
    • Decitabine-induced DNA methylation-mediated transcriptomic reprogramming in human breast cancer cell lines; the impact of DCK overexpression 

      Buociková, Verona; Tyciakova, Sylvia; Pilalis, Eleftherios; Mastrokalou, Chara; Urbanova, Maria; Matuskova, Miroslava; Demkova, Lucia; Medova, Veronika; Longhin, Eleonora Marta; Rundén-Pran, Elise; Dusinska, Maria; Rios Mondragon, Ivan; Cimpan, Mihaela-Roxana; Gábelová, Alena; Soltysova, Andrea; Smolkova, Bozena; Chatziioannou, Aristotelis (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Decitabine (DAC), a DNA methyltransferase (DNMT) inhibitor, is tested in combination with conventional anticancer drugs as a treatment option for various solid tumors. Although epigenome modulation provides a promising ...
    • Differences in Trophic Level, Contaminant Load, and DNA Damage in an Urban and a Remote Herring Gull (Larus argentatus) Breeding Colony in Coastal Norway 

      Keilen, Ellen Kristine; Borgå, Katrine; Thorstensen, Helene Skjeie; Hylland, Ketil; Helberg, Morten; Warner, Nicholas Alexander; Bæk, Kine; Reiertsen, Tone Kristin; Ruus, Anders (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Herring gulls (Larus argentatus) are opportunistic feeders, resulting in contaminant exposure depending on area and habitat. We compared contaminant concentrations and dietary markers between two herring gull breeding ...
    • 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, ...
    • Lack of mutagenicity of TiO2 nanoparticles in vitro despite cellular and nuclear uptake 

      El Yamani, Naouale; Rubio, Laura; García-Rodríguez, Alba; Kažimírová, Alena; Rundén-Pran, Elise; Barančoková, Magdaléna; Marcos, Ricard; Dusinska, Maria (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      The potential genotoxicity of titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanoparticles (NPs) is a conflictive topic because both positive and negative findings have been reported. To add clarity, we have carried out a study with two cell ...
    • Clean air policies are key for successfully mitigating Arctic warming 

      von Salzen, Knut; Whaley, Cynthia; Anenberg, Susan C.; Van Dingenen, Rita; Klimont, Zbigniew; Flanner, Mark G.; Mahmood, Rashed; Arnold, Stephen R.; Beagley, Stephen; Chien, Rong-You; Christensen, Jesper H.; Eckhardt, Sabine; Ekman, Annica M. L.; Evangeliou, Nikolaos; Faluvegi, Greg; Fu, Joshua S.; Gauss, Michael (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      A tighter integration of modeling frameworks for climate and air quality is urgently needed to assess the impacts of clean air policies on future Arctic and global climate. We combined a new model emulator and comprehensive ...
    • Impact of the Pacific sector sea ice loss on the sudden stratospheric warming characteristics 

      Zhang, Jiarong; Orsolini, Yvan J.; Limpasuvan, Varavut; Ukita, Jinro (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      The atmospheric response to Arctic sea ice loss remains a subject of much debate. Most studies have focused on the sea ice retreat in the Barents-Kara Seas and its troposphere-stratosphere influence. Here, we investigate ...
    • Small Arctic rivers transport legacy contaminants from thawing catchments to coastal areas in Kongsfjorden, Svalbard 

      Mcgovern, Maeve; Borgå, Katrine; Heimstad, Eldbjørg Sofie; Ruus, Anders; Christensen, Guttorm; Evenset, Anita (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Decades of atmospheric and oceanic long-range transport from lower latitudes have resulted in deposition and storage of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in Arctic regions. With increased temperatures, melting glaciers ...
    • Comparison of young male mice of two different strains (C57BL/6J and the hybrid B6129SF1/J) in selected behavior tests. A small scale study 

      Hansen, Kristine Eraker Aasland; Hudecova, Alexandra Misci; Haugen, Fred; Skjerve, Eystein; Ropstad, Erik; Zimmer, Karin Elisabeth (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      BACKGROUND All mouse strains are different, before choosing a strain for a large study, a small scale study should be done. In this study, we compared young males of two mouse strains, C57BL/6J and the hybrid B6129SF1/J, ...
    • Norges målenettverk for luftkvalitet. Gjennomgang av stasjonsplasseringer i forhold til krav i EUs luftkvalitetsdirektiver. 

      Hak, Claudia (NILU rapport;23/2022, Research report, 2022)
      Rapporten gir en oversikt over Norges luftkvalitetsmålenettverk. Alle målestasjoner som rapporterer måledata til EEA/ESA er beskrevet og plasseringen er vurdert i forhold til krav i EUs direktiver. Omgivelsene til stasjonene ...