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.

HRGC/HRMS Analysis of Short Chain Chlorinated Paraffins(SCCPs). Powerpoint presentation. NILU F

Borgen, A.

How will shallow coastal lagoons respond to climate change? A modelling investigation.

Brito, A.C.; Newton, A.; Tett, P.; Fernandes, T.F.

How will 2021 WHO Air Quality Guidelines impact the health impact assessment by the European Environment Agency

Soares, Joana; Gsella, Artur; Horálek, Jan; Guerreiro, Cristina; Ortiz, Alberto González

How to measure vegetation fires from space and estimate emission fluxes?

Kaiser, Johannes

How to create active teachers in education for Sustainable Development. NILU F

Endregard, G.

How to COPE? Contaminant-climate change interactions in the Arctic.

Krogseth, Ingjerd Sunde

How Stratospheric Chemistry and Transport Drive Surface Variability of N2O

Ruiz, Daniel J.; Prather, Michael J.; Strahan, Susan E.; Steenrod, Stephen D.; Thompson, Rona Louise; Froidevaux, Lucien

How stable are our indices? - differentiating between sources in a weathering

Mudge, Stepen Michael

How much PCB does your body contain?

Solbakken, C.F.

How does suburban sprawl vs. compact city development influence urban transport performance and its emissions?

Drabicki, Arkadiusz; Lopez-Aparicio, Susana; Grythe, Henrik; Chwastek, Konrad; Górska, Lidia

How do we understand interdisciplinarity in environment and climate research: results from a recent study in Norway

Bartonova, Alena; Ruud, Audun; Skjellum, Solrun Figenschau; Slettemark, Brita; Lund, Mariann; Singsaas, Frode Thomassen; Aspøy, Håkon; Grossberndt, Sonja; Enge, Caroline; Sander, Gunnar

How certain are we of the uncertainties in recent ozone profile trend assessments of merged limb/occultation records? Challenges and possible ways forward.

Hubert, D.; Lambert, J.-C.; Verhoelst, T.; Granville, J.; Keppens, A.; Baray, J.-L.; Cortesi, U.; Degenstein, D.; Froidevaux, L.; Godin-Beekmann, S.; Hoppel, K.; Kyrola, E.; Leblanc, T.; Lichtenberg, G.; McElroy, C.; Murtagh, D.; Russell, J.; Salvador, J.; Smit, H.; Stebel, K.; Steinbrecht, W.; Strawbridge, K.; Stubi, R.; Swart, D.; Taha, G.; Thompson, A.; Urban, J.; van Gijsel, A.; von Der Gathen, P.; Walker, K.; Wolfram, E.; Zawodny, J.; Nakane, H.