• Supporting the improvement of air quality management practices: The “FAIRMODE pilot” activity 

      Pisoni, E.; Guerreiro, Cristina; Lopez-Aparicio, Susana; Guevara, M.; Tarrasón, Leonor; Janssen, S; Thunis, P.; Pfafflin, F.; Piersanti, A.; Briganti, G.; Cappelletti, A; D'Elia, I.; Mircea, Mihaela; Villani, M. G.; Vitali, L.; Matavz, L.; Rus, M; Žabkar, Rahela; Kauhaniemi, M.; Karppinen, A; Kousa, A.; Väkevä, O.; Eneroth, Kristina; Stortini, M.; Delaney, K.; Struzewska, J.; Durka, P.; Kaminski, JW; Krmpotic, S.; Vidic, S; Belavic, M.; Brzoja, D.; Milic, V; Assimakopoulos, V. D.; Fameli, K. M.; Polimerova, T.; Stoyneva, E.; Hristova, Y.; Sokolovski, E.; Cuvelier, C. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      This paper presents the first outcomes of the “FAIRMODE pilot” activity, aiming at improving the way in which air quality models are used in the frame of the European “Air Quality Directive”. Member States may use modelling, ...
    • Review of the Assessment of Industrial Emissions with Mosses 

      Mudge, Stephen Michael; Pfaffhuber, Katrine Aspmo; Uggerud, Hilde Thelle (NILU report;22/2019, Research report, 2019)
      Commissioned by Norwegian Environmental Agency, NILU - Norwegian Institute for Air Research has surveyed the literature on the topic of “Assessment of industrial emissions using moss”. The purpose is to provide an overview ...
    • Utslipp til luft fra Boliden Odda AS. Spredningsberegninger og konsekvensvurderinger av økte utslipp. 

      Weydahl, Torleif; Svendby, Tove Marit (NILU rapport;3/2019, Research report, 2019)
      NILU - Norsk Institutt for luftforskning har på oppdrag for Boliden Odda AS, utført sprednings- og avsetningsberegninger i forbindelse med utslipp fra sinkproduksjonsanlegget. Studien beregner luftkonsentrasjon og avsetning ...
    • Trends of inorganic and organic aerosols and precursor gases in Europe: insights from the EURODELTA multi-model experiment over the 1990–2010 period 

      Ciarelli, Giancarlo; Theobald, Mark, R.; Vivanco, Marta García; Beekmann, Matthias; Aas, Wenche; Andersson, Camilla; Bergström, Robert; Manders-Groot, Astrid; Couvidat, Florian; Mircea, Mihaela (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      In the framework of the EURODELTA-Trends (EDT) modeling experiment, several chemical transport models (CTMs) were applied for the 1990–2010 period to investigate air quality changes in Europe as well as the capability of ...
    • Measurements of Oxidative Potential of Particulate Matter at Belgrade Tunnel; Comparison of BPEAnit, DTT and DCFH Assay 

      Jovanovic, Maja; Savic, Jasmina; Salimi, Farhad; Stevanovic, Svetlana; Brown, Reece A.; Jovasevic-Stojanovic, Milena; Manojlovic, Dragan; Bartonova, Alena; Bottle, Steven; Ristovski, Zoran (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      To estimate the oxidative potential (OP) of particulate matter (PM), two commonly used cell-free, molecular probes were applied: dithiothreitol (DTT) and dichloro-dihydro-fluorescein diacetate (DCFH-DA), and their performance ...
    • Physical controls of dynamics of methane venting from a shallow seep area west of Svalbard 

      Silyakova, Anna; Jansson, Pär; Serov, Pavel; Ferré, Benedicte; Pavlov, A.K; Hattermann, Tore; Graves, C.A; Platt, Stephen Matthew; Myhre, Cathrine Lund; Grüdger, Friederike; Niemann, Helge (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      We investigate methane seepage on the shallow shelf west of Svalbard during three consecutive years, using discrete sampling of the water column, echosounder-based gas flux estimates, water mass properties, and numerical ...
    • EURODELTA III exercise: An evaluation of air quality models' capacity to reproduce the carbonaceous aerosol 

      Mircea, Mihaela; Bessagnet, Bertrand; D'Isidoro, Massimo; Pirovano, Guido; Aksoyoglu, Sebnem; Ciarelli, Giancarlo; Tsyro, Svetlana; Manders, Astrid; Bieser, Johannes; Stern, Rainer; Vivanco, Marta García; Cuvelier, Cornelius; Aas, Wenche; Prévôt, André S.H.; Aulinger, Armin; Briganti, Gino; Calori, Giuseppe; Cappelletti, Andrea; Colette, Augustin; Couvidat, Florian; Fagerli, Hilde; Finardi, Sandro; Kranenburg, Richard; Rouil, Laurence; Silibello, Camillo; Spindler, Gerald; Poulain, Laurent; Herrmann, Hartmut; Jimenez, Jose L.; Day, Douglas A.; Tiitta, Petri; Carbone, Samara (Journal article, 2019)
      The carbonaceous aerosol accounts for an important part of total aerosol mass, affects human health and climate through its effects on physical and chemical properties of the aerosol, yet the understanding of its atmospheric ...
    • Impacts of the autumn Arctic sea ice on the intraseasonal reversal of the winter Siberian high 

      Lü, Zhuozhuo; He, Shengping; Li, Fei; Wang, Huijun (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
    • The Eulerian urban dispersion model EPISODE – Part 2: Extensions to the source dispersion and photochemistry for EPISODE–CityChem v1.2 and its application to the city of Hamburg 

      Karl, Matthias; Walker, Sam-Erik; Solberg, Sverre; Ramacher, Martin O. P. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      This paper describes the CityChem extension of the Eulerian urban dispersion model EPISODE. The development of the CityChem extension was driven by the need to apply the model in largely populated urban areas with highly ...
    • Kartlegging av lokal luftkvalitet i Hønefoss. Målinger 2018-2019. 

      Tønnesen, Dag Arild; Tørnkvist, Kjersti Karlsen; Skaar, Jøran Solnes (NILU rapport;24/2019, Research report, 2019)
      NILU - Norsk institutt for luftforskning har på oppdrag fra Ringerike kommune gjennomført kartlegging av lokal luftkvalitet i Hønefoss. Måleprogrammet startet juni 2018 og ble avsluttet i mai 2019. Målingene ble gjennomført ...
    • Lead and Antimony in Basal Ice From Col du Dome (French Alps) Dated With Radiocarbon: A Record of Pollution During Antiquity 

      Preunkert, Susanne; McConnell, Joseph R.; Hoffmann, Helene; Legrand, Michel; Wilson, Andrew I.; Eckhardt, Sabine; Stohl, Andreas; Chellman, Nathan J; Arienzo, Monica M; Friedrich, Ronny (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
    • Using life cycle assessment to inform municipal climate mitigation planning 

      Thorne, Rebecca Jayne; Bouman, Evert; Guerreiro, Cristina; Majchrzak, Anna; Calus, Sylwia (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
    • High resolution mass spectrometry-based non-target screening can support regulatory environmental monitoring and chemicals management 

      Hollender, Juliane; van Bavel, Bert; Dulio, Valeria; Farmen, Eivind; Furtmann, Klaus; Koschorreck, Jan; Kunkel, Uwe; Krauss, Martin; Munthe, John; Schlabach, Martin; Slobodnik, Jaroslav; Stroomberg, Gerard; Ternes, Thomas A; Thomaidis, Nikolaos S.; Togola, Anne; Tornero, Victoria (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      Non-target screening (NTS) including suspect screening with high resolution mass spectrometry has already shown its feasibility in detecting and identifying emerging contaminants, which subsequently triggered exposure ...
    • Technical and environmental viability of a European CO2 EOR system 

      Thorne, Rebecca Jayne; Sundseth, Kyrre; Bouman, Evert; Czarnowska, Lucyna; Mathisen, Anette; Skagestad, Ragnhild; Stanek, Wojciech; Pacyna, Jozef M; Pacyna, Elisabeth G (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      Captured CO2 from large industrial emitters may be used for enhanced oil recovery (EOR), but as of yet there are no European large-scale EOR systems. Recent implementation decisions for a Norwegian carbon capture and storage ...
    • Plastic litter in the European Arctic: What do we know? 

      Halsband-Lenk, Claudia; Herzke, Dorte (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Despite an exponential increase in available data on marine plastic debris globally, information on levels and trends of plastic pollution and especially microplastics in the Arctic remains scarce. The few available ...
    • The Mineral Aerosol Profiling from Infrared Radiances (MAPIR) algorithm: version 4.1 description and evaluation 

      Callewaert, Sieglinde; Vandenbussche, Sophie; Kumps, Nicolas; Kylling, Arve; Shang, Xiaoxia; Komppula, Mika; Goloub, Philippe; De Mazière, Martine (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      The Mineral Aerosol Profiling from Infrared Radiances (MAPIR) algorithm retrieves vertical dust concentration profiles from cloud-free Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer (IASI) thermal infrared (TIR) radiances ...
    • Cleaning costs for European sheltered white painted steel and modern glass surfaces due to air pollution since the year 2000 

      Grøntoft, Terje; Verney-Carron, Aurelie; Tidblad, Johan (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      This paper reports estimated maintenance-cleaning costs, cost savings and cleaning interval increases for structural surfaces and windows in Europe obtainable by reducing the air pollution. Methodology and data from the ...
    • Global and regional trends of atmospheric sulfur 

      Aas, Wenche; Mortier, Augustin; Bowersox, Van C.; Cherian, Ribu; Faluvegi, Greg; Fagerli, Hilde; Hand, Jenny; Klimont, Zbigniew; Galy-Lacaux, Corinne; Lehmann, Christopher M. B.; Myhre, Cathrine Lund; Myhre, Gunnar; Oliviè, Dirk Jan Leo; Sato, Keiichi; Quaas, Johannes; Rao, P.S.P.; Schulz, Michael; Shindell, Drew; Skeie, Ragnhild Bieltvedt; Stein, Ariel; Takemura, Toshihiko; Tsyro, Svetlana; Vet, Robert; Xu, Xiaobin (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      The profound changes in global SO2 emissions over the last decades have affected atmospheric composition on a regional and global scale with large impact on air quality, atmospheric deposition and the radiative forcing of ...
    • Health and Exposure to VOCs From Pinewood in Indoor Environments 

      Skulberg, Knut Ragnvald; Nyrud, Anders Q.; Goffeng, Lars Ole; Wisthaler, Armin (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      As a natural, biological material, wood emits various organic chemical substances, mostly volatile organic compounds (VOCs), very volatile organic compounds (VVOCs) and formaldehyde. When such emissions occur in indoor ...
    • Dose calculations in aircrafts after Fukushima nuclear power plant accident – Preliminary study for aviation operations 

      Vargas, Arturo; Arnold, Delia; Duch, M.-A.; Evangeliou, Nikolaos; Sievers, Klaus (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      There is little information to decision support in air traffic management in case of nuclear releases into the atmosphere. In this paper, the dose estimation due to both, external exposure (i.e. cloud immersion, deposition ...