Publications

The role of individual cyclones for atmospheric latent and sensible heat transport into the European Arctic. NILU F

Sodemann, H.; Stohl, A.

The role of diet and age: Organohalogen accumulation in an avian top predator

Løseth, Mari Engvig; Briels, Nathalie; Eulaers, Igor; Nygård, Torgeir; Johnsen, Trond Vidar; Bustnes, Jan Ove; Herzke, Dorte; Poma, Giulia; Malarvannan, Govindan; Covaci, Adrian; Jenssen, Bjørn Munro; Jaspers, Veerle

The Role of Compound Events in Investigating, Modeling, and Supporting Climate Change Adaptation

Boero, Riccardo

The role of citizen science data in air quality research data management and sharing

Castell, Nuria; Bartonova, Alena; Grossberndt, Sonja; Høiskar, Britt Ann Kåstad

The role of air quality modelling in particulate matter management in cities. Results from the air implementation pilot.

Castell, N.; Guerreiro, C.; Denby, B.R.; Ortiz González, A.

The response of polar mesosphere-low thermospheric (MLT) ozone to stratospheric sudden warming. NILU F

Tweedy, O.; Limpasuvan, V.; Smith, A.; Orsolini, Y.J.; Randall, C.; Garcia, R.R.; Kinnison, D.; Chadran, A.; Kvissel, O.-K.

The relevance of the location of blocking highs for stratospheric variability in a changing climate.

Ayarzaguena, B.; Orsolini, Y.J.; Langematz, U.; Abalichin, J.; Kubin, A.

The relevance of blocking highs for stratospheric variability in a changing climate. NILU F

Ayarzagüena, B.; Orsolini, Y.; Langematz, U.; Abalichin, J.; Kubin, A.

The relationship between ultraviolet radiation exposure and vitamin D status.

Engelsen, O.

The relationship between exposure of ultraviolet radiation and vitamin D status. NILU F

Engelsen, O.

The regional European atmospheric transport inversion comparison, EUROCOM: first results on European-wide terrestrial carbon fluxes for the period 2006–2015

Monteil, Guillaume; Broquet, Grégoire; Scholze, Marko; Lang, Matthew; Karstens, Ute; Gerbig, Christoph; Koch, Frank-Thomas; Smith, Naomi; Thompson, Rona Louise; Luijkx, Ingrid T.; White, Emily; Meesters, Antoon; Ciais, Philippe; Ganesan, Anita L.; Manning, Alistair; Mischurow, Michael; Peters, Wouter; Peylin, Philippe; Tarniewicz, Jerome; Rigby, Matt; Rödenbeck, Christian; Vermeulen, Alex; Walton, Evie M.

Atmospheric inversions have been used for the past two decades to derive large-scale constraints on the sources and sinks of CO2 into the atmosphere. The development of dense in situ surface observation networks, such as ICOS in Europe, enables in theory inversions at a resolution close to the country scale in Europe. This has led to the development of many regional inversion systems capable of assimilating these high-resolution data, in Europe and elsewhere. The EUROCOM (European atmospheric transport inversion comparison) project is a collaboration between seven European research institutes, which aims at producing a collective assessment of the net carbon flux between the terrestrial ecosystems and the atmosphere in Europe for the period 2006–2015. It aims in particular at investigating the capacity of the inversions to deliver consistent flux estimates from the country scale up to the continental scale.

The project participants were provided with a common database of in situ-observed CO2 concentrations (including the observation sites that are now part of the ICOS network) and were tasked with providing their best estimate of the net terrestrial carbon flux for that period, and for a large domain covering the entire European Union. The inversion systems differ by the transport model, the inversion approach, and the choice of observation and prior constraints, enabling us to widely explore the space of uncertainties.

This paper describes the intercomparison protocol and the participating systems, and it presents the first results from a reference set of inversions, at the continental scale and in four large regions. At the continental scale, the regional inversions support the assumption that European ecosystems are a relatively small sink (−0.21±0.2
 Pg C yr−1). We find that the convergence of the regional inversions at this scale is not better than that obtained in state-of-the-art global inversions. However, more robust results are obtained for sub-regions within Europe, and in these areas with dense observational coverage, the objective of delivering robust country-scale flux estimates appears achievable in the near future.

The quality of indoor environment as a determinant of health of users.

Bartonova, A.