• 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)
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • Prevalence of tick-borne encephalitis virus in questing Ixodes ricinus nymphs in southern Scandinavia and the possible influence of meteorological factors 

      Lamsal, Alaka; Edgar, Kristin Skarsfjord; Jenkins, Andrew; Renssen, Hans; Kjær, Lene Jung; Alfsnes, Kristian; Bastakoti, Srijana; Dieseth, Malene Strøm; Klitgaard, Kirstine; Lindstedt, Heidi Elisabeth Heggen; Paulsen, Katrine Mørk; Vikse, Rose; Korslund, Lars; Kjelland, Vivian; Stuen, Snorre; Kjellander, Petter; Christensson, Madeleine; Teräväinen, Malin; Jensen, Laura Mark; Regmi, Manoj; Giri, Dhiraj; Marsteen, Leif; Bødker, René; Soleng, Arnulf; Andreassen, Åshild Kristine (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Ixodes ricinus ticks are Scandinavia's main vector for tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV), which infects many people annually. The aims of the present study were (i) to obtain information on the TBEV prevalence in ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • Arctic tropospheric ozone: assessment of current knowledge and model performance 

      Whaley, Cynthia; Law, Kathy S.; Hjorth, Jens Liengaard; Skov, Henrik; Arnold, Stephen R.; Langner, Joakim; Pernov, Jakob Boyd; Bergeron, Garance; Bourgeois, Ilann; Christensen, Jesper H.; Chien, Rong-You; Deushi, Makoto; Dong, Xinyi; Effertz, Peter; Faluvegi, Gregory; Flanner, Mark G.; Fu, Joshua S.; Gauss, Michael; Huey, Greg L.; Im, Ulas; Kivi, Rigel; Marelle, Louis; Onishi, Tatsuo; Oshima, Naga; Petropavlovskikh, Irina; Peischl, Jeff; Plummer, David A.; Pozzoli, Luca; Raut, Jean-Christophe; Ryerson, Tom; Skeie, Ragnhild Bieltvedt; Solberg, Sverre; Thomas, Manu Anna; Thompson, Chelsea R.; Tsigaridis, Kostas; Tsyro, Svetlana; Turnock, Steven T.; von Salzen, Knut; Tarasick, David (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      As the third most important greenhouse gas (GHG) after carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4), tropospheric ozone (O3) is also an air pollutant causing damage to human health and ecosystems. This study brings together ...
    • Safety-by-design and engineered nanomaterials: the need to move from theory to practice 

      Trump, Benjamin D.; Antunes, Dalila; Palma-Oliveira, José; Nelson, Andrew; Hudecova, Alexandra Misci; Rundén-Pran, Elise; Dusinska, Maria; Gispert, Ignasi; Resch, Susanne; Alfaro-Serrano, Beatriz; Afantitis, Antreas; Melagraki, Georgia; Tse, Edmund C. M.; Trump, Josh; Kohl, Yvonne; Linkov, Igor (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      As the governance of engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) evolves, innovations in the prevention, mitigation, management, and transfer of risk shape discussion of how nanotechnology may mature and reach various marketplaces. ...
    • Phthalate contamination in marine mammals off the Norwegian coast 

      Andvik, Clare Margaret; Bories, Pierre; Harju, Mikael; Borgå, Katrine; Jourdain, Eve Marie; Karoliussen, Richard; Rikardsen, Audun Håvard; Routti, Heli Anna Irmeli; Blévin, Pierre (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Phthalates are used in plastics, found throughout the marine environment and have the potential to cause adverse health effects. In the present study, we quantified blubber concentrations of 11 phthalates in 16 samples ...
    • Equilibrium Climate after Spectral and Bolometric Irradiance Reduction in Grand Solar Minimum Simulations 

      Tartaglione, Nazario; Toniazzo, Thomas; Otterå, Odd Helge; Orsolini, Yvan Joseph Georges Emile G. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      In this study, we use the Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model, forced by present-day atmospheric composition and coupled to a Slab Ocean Model, to simulate the state of the climate under grand solar minimum forcing ...
    • Sheath formation time for spherical Langmuir probes 

      Kjølerbakken, Kai Morgan; Miloch, Wojciech Jacek; Røed, Ketil (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      The formation time of the surrounding sheath of Langmuir probes in an ionospheric plasma has been studied to better understand the constraints this puts on the sampling frequency of a probe. A fully kinetic three-dimensional ...
    • A flexible algorithm for network design based on information theory 

      Thompson, Rona Louise; Pisso, Ignacio (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      A novel method for atmospheric network design is presented, which is based on information theory. The method does not require calculation of the posterior uncertainty (or uncertainty reduction) and is therefore computationally ...
    • Global agricultural ammonia emissions simulated with the ORCHIDEE land surface mode 

      Beaudor, Maureen; Vuichard, Nicolas; Lathière, Juliette; Evangeliou, Nikolaos; Van Damme, Martin; Clarisse, Lieven; Hauglustaine, Didier (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Ammonia (NH3) is an important atmospheric constituent. It plays a role in air quality and climate through the formation of ammonium sulfate and ammonium nitrate particles. It has also an impact on ecosystems through ...
    • An optimised organic carbon∕elemental carbon (OC∕EC) fraction separation method for radiocarbon source apportionment applied to low-loaded Arctic aerosol filters 

      Rauber, Martin; Salazar, Gary; Yttri, Karl Espen; Szidat, Sönke (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Radiocarbon (14C) analysis of carbonaceous aerosols is used for source apportionment, separating the carbon content into fossil vs. non-fossil origin, and is particularly useful when applied to subfractions of total carbon ...
    • The AirGAM 2022r1 air quality trend and prediction model 

      Walker, Sam-Erik; Solberg, Sverre; Schneider, Philipp; Guerreiro, Cristina (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      This paper presents the AirGAM 2022r1 model – an air quality trend and prediction model developed at the Norwegian Institute for Air Research (NILU) in cooperation with the European Environment Agency (EEA) over 2017–2021. ...
    • Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles Modulate Systemic Immune Response and Increase Levels of Reduced Glutathione in Mice after Seven-Week Inhalation 

      Mikusova, Miroslava Lehotska; Busova, Milena; Tulinska, Jana; Masanova, Vlasta; Liskova, Aurelia; Uhnakova, Iveta; Dusinska, Maria; Krivosikova, Zora; Rollerova, Eva; Alacova, Radka; Wsolova, Ladislava; Horvathova, Mira; Szabova, Michaela; Lukan, Norbert; Vecera, Zbynek; Coufalik, Pavel; Krumal, Kamil; Alexa, Lukas; Thon, Vojtech; Piler, Pavel; Buchtova, Marcela; Vrlikova, Lucie; Moravec, Pavel; Mikuska, Pavel (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Titanium dioxide nanoparticles (TiO2 NPs) are used in a wide range of applications. Although inhalation of NPs is one of the most important toxicologically relevant routes, experimental studies on potential harmful effects ...