Publications

HTAP3 Fires: towards a multi-model, multi-pollutant study of fire impacts

Whaley, Cynthia H.; Butler, Tim; adame, Jose A.; Ambulkar, Rupal; Arnold, Steve R.; Bucholz, Rebecca; Gaubert, Benjamin; Hamilton, Douglas S.; Huang, Min; Hung, Hayley; Kaiser, Johannes; Kaminski, Jacek W.; Knote, Christoph; Koren, Gerbrand; Kouassi, Jean-Luc; Lin, Meiyun; Liu, Tianjia; Ma, Jianmin; Manomaiphiboon, Kasemsan; Masso, Elise Bergas; McCarty, Jessica L.; Mertens, Mariano; Parrington, Mark; Peiro, Helene; Saxena, Pallavi; Sonwani, Saurabh; Surapipith, Vanisa; Tan, Damaris Y. T.; Tang, Wenfu; Tanpipat, Veerachai; Tsigaridis, Kostas; Wiedinmyer, Christine; Wild, Oliver; Xie, Yuanyu; Zuidema, Paquita

Open biomass burning has major impacts globally and regionally on atmospheric composition. Fire emissions include particulate matter, tropospheric ozone precursors, and greenhouse gases, as well as persistent organic pollutants, mercury, and other metals. Fire frequency, intensity, duration, and location are changing as the climate warms, and modelling these fires and their impacts is becoming more and more critical to inform climate adaptation and mitigation, as well as land management. Indeed, the air pollution from fires can reverse the progress made by emission controls on industry and transportation. At the same time, nearly all aspects of fire modelling – such as emissions, plume injection height, long-range transport, and plume chemistry – are highly uncertain. This paper outlines a multi-model, multi-pollutant, multi-regional study to improve the understanding of the uncertainties and variability in fire atmospheric science, models, and fires' impacts, in addition to providing quantitative estimates of the air pollution and radiative impacts of biomass burning. Coordinated under the auspices of the Task Force on Hemispheric Transport of Air Pollution, the international atmospheric modelling and fire science communities are working towards the common goal of improving global fire modelling and using this multi-model experiment to provide estimates of fire pollution for impact studies. This paper outlines the research needs, opportunities, and options for the fire-focused multi-model experiments and provides guidance for these modelling experiments, outputs, and analyses that are to be pursued over the next 3 to 5 years. The paper proposes a plan for delivering specific products at key points over this period to meet important milestones relevant to science and policy audiences.

Towards a Holistic Approach in Chemical Exposure Assessment: The ExpoAdvance Roadmap

Lamon, Lara; Paini, Alicia; Doyle, James; Moeller, Ruth; Viegas, Susana; Cubadda, Francesco; Hoet, Peter; van Nieuwenhuyse, A.; Louro, Henriqueta; Dusinska, Maria; Galea, Karen S.; Canham, Rebecca; Martins, Carla; Gama, Ana; Teofilo, Vania; Silva, Maria Joao; Ventura, Celia; Alvito, Paula; El Yamani, Naouale; Ghosh, Manosij; Radu, Duca; Siccardi, Marco; Rundén-Pran, Elise; McNamara, Cronan; Price, Paul

Non-Target Screening of Chemicals of Emerging Concern in Marine Mammals in the Nordic Environment

Zhu, Linyan; Rehnstam, Svante; Ahrens, Lutz; Harju, Mikael; Rostkowski, Pawel; Søndergaard, Jens; Vorkamp, Katrin

Leaching of Organic Compounds from Tire Particles Under Conditions Simulating the Deep Sea

Schmidt, Natascha; Foscari, Aurelio Giovanni; Garel, Marc; Tamburini, Christian; Seiwert, Bettina; Herzke, Dorte; Reemtsma, Thorsten; Sempere, Richard

PFAS Sequencing: a Series of Simple Chemical Transformations for Structure Elucidation of Unknown PFAS

Nikiforov, Vladimir

Modeling the Impact of Pedestrianization on Urban Air Quality

O'Regan, Anna C.; Grythe, Henrik; Sousa Santos, Gabriela; Nyhan, Marguerite M.

Air quality monitoring for air quality policy. Technical support document on the use of reference and non-reference methods, and on the quality assurance process to meet relevant data quality objectives for regulated air pollutants

Tarrasón, Leonor; Geiger, Jutta; Vercauteren, Jordy; Baldan, Annarita; Kyllönen, Katriina; Panteliadis, Pavlos; Stacey, Brian; Green, Jo; Jursins, Jekabs; Marsteen, Leif; Johnsrud, Mona

This document provides technical details and support for the implementation of air quality monitoring under the Directive (EU) 2024/2881 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2024 on ambient air quality and cleaner air for Europe (recast) (AAQD, Directive (EU) 2024/2881). It presents an overview of current knowledge and best practices, signposting to existing technical guidance on air quality monitoring and to sources of ongoing technical guidance development. This document does not formulate any legal provisions and as such, it does not have a legally binding value.

Publications Office of the European Union/European Commission. Directorate-General for Environment

Evaluation of fire emissions for HTAP3 with CAMS GFAS and IFS-COMPO

Kaiser, Johannes; Huijnen, Vincent; Remy, Samuel; Ytre-Eide, Martin Album; de Jong, Marc C.; Zheng, Bo; Wiedinmyer, Christine

GFAS4HTAP

Kaiser, Johannes; Huijnen, Vincent; Remy, Samuel; Ytre-Eide, Martin Album; de Jong, Marc C.; Zheng, Bo; Wiedinmyer, Christine

Fluxes, residence times, and the budget of microplastics in the Curonian Lagoon

Abbasi, Sajjad; Hashemi, Neda; Sabaliauskaitė, Viktorija; Evangeliou, Nikolaos; Dzingelevičius, Nerijus; Balčiūnas, Arūnas; Dzingelevičienė, Reda

Springer

Ny forskingsrapport om klatrehallar: Luftforureining på nivå med motorvegar

Hak, Claudia (interview subject); Kleiven, Maria Fimreite (journalist)

Energetic particle precipitation signatures in reanalyses and models

Orsolini, Yvan