Publications

Extensive release of methane from Arctic seabed west of Svalbard during summer 2014 does not influence the atmosphere.

Myhre, C.L.; Ferré, B.; Platt, S.M.; Silyakova, A.; Hermansen, O.; Allen, G.; Pisso, I.; Schmidbauer, N.; Stohl, A.; Pitt, J.; Jansson, P.; Greinert, J.; Percival, C.; Fjaeraa, A.M.; O'Shea, S.J.; Gallagher, M.; Le Breton, M.; Bower, K.N.; Bauguitte, S.J.B.; Dalsøren, S.; Vadakkepuliyambatta, S.; Fisher, R.E.; Nisbet, E.G.; Lowry, D.; Myhre, G.; Pyle, J.A.; Cain, M.; Mienert, J.

Impact of springtime Himalayan-Tibetan Plateau snowpack on the onset of the Indian summer monsoon in coupled seasonal forecasts.

Senan, R.; Orsolini, Y.J.; Weisheimer, A.; Vitart, F.; Balsamo, G.; Stockdale, T.N.; Dutra, E.; Doblas-Reyes, F.J.; Basang, D.

Tilt error in cryospheric surface radiation measurements at high latitudes: a model study.

Bogren, W.S.; Burkhart, J.F.; Kylling, A.

Modeling and evaluation of urban pollution events of atmospheric heavy metals from a large Cu-smelter.

Chen, B.; Stein, A.F.; Castell, N.; Gonzalez-Castanedo, Y.; de la Campa, A.M.S.; de la Rosa, J.D.

Uncertainty in Citizen Science observations: from measurement to user perception.

Lahoz, W.; Schneider, P.; Castell, N.

Air quality in Ny-Ålesund. Monitoring of local air quality 2014-2015. NILU report

Johnsrud, M.; Hermansen, O.; Tørnkvist, K.

The concentrations of the measured components are generally low and below national limit values for the protection of human health and critical levels for the protection of vegetation.
Wind from northern sectors gave the highest average concentrations of nitrogen oxides, which indicates the power station and the harbour as possible sources. From September 2014 to February 2015, volcanic eruptions at Iceland emitted large volumes of SO2, which gave episodes of elevated concentrations in Ny-Ålesund. The measurement results for CO2 show an annual variation with higher concentrations in the winter and lower in summer. Measured concentrations of CO were most likely caused by local snowmobile traffic and long-range transport of emissions from wildfires in North America.

Challenges associated with e-waste management.

Abbasi, G.

From science and policy to people and back: Processes of risk communication.

Gjørv, G.H.; Bojko, E.; Grossberndt, S.; Bartonova, A.; Mikkelsen, E.; Normann, A.K.; Kukarenko, N.; Golubeva, E.; Britvina, S.; Myhr, S.

Seasonality and indoor/outdoor relationships of flame retardants and PCBs in residential air.

Melymuk, L.; Bohlin-Nizzetto, P.; Kukucka, P.; Vojta, Š.; Kalina, J.; Cupr, P.; Klánová, J.

Top-down assessment of the Asian carbon budget since the mid 1990s.

Thompson, R.L.; Patra, P.K.; Chevallier, F.; Maksyutov, S.; Law, R.M.; Ziehn, T.; van der Laan-Luijkx, I.T.; Peters, W.; Ganshin, A.; Zhuravlev, R.; Maki, T.; Nakamura, T.; Shirai, T.; Ishizawa, M.; Saeki, T.; Machida, T.; Poulter, B.; Canadell, J.G.; Ciais, P.

SHIPMATE - Ship traffic particulate matter emissions. Final project report. NILU report

Lopez-Aparicio, S.; Karl, M.; Leck, C.; Bäcklund, A.

In the SHIPMATE project, we have carried out measurements of a large number of pollutants and aerosol components at the Mt. Zeppelin observatory during 2014 and 2015, with focus on the summer period (April to September). The aims were 1) identification of the particulate matter (PM) contribution from ship emissions by source apportionment and 2) isolation of data records influenced by local ship emissions in order to preserve the usefulness of the observatory for regional trends of atmospheric constituents. A total of 8 potentially ship-influenced 3-day sampling intervals were found in the analysis of the wind direction record and the harbour calls from Ny-Ålesund (2014 and 2015). The local shipping pollution contributed significantly (¿50%) to the concentration levels of certain heavy metals such as Cu, Ni, Zn and Cd during the two summers. This is supported by the enrichment factors analysis. However, the influence of local pollution from shipping on the measurements carried out at the Mt. Zeppelin observatory is rather infrequent.

Screening programme 2015. Benzothiazoles, siloxanes, pigments & PBT compounds. NIVA report, 1639-2016

van Bavel, B.; Thomas, K.V.; Langford, K.; Reid, M.; Vogelsang, C.; Øxnevad, S.; Bæk, K.; Fjeld, E.; Brooks, S.; Schlabach, M.; Rostkowski, P.; Warner, N.; Borgen, A.; Halse, A.K.; Davanger, K.; Gundersen, H.

This report summarizes the findings of a screening study into the occurrence of selected benzothiazoles, siloxanes, pigments & PBT compounds in effluents, sewage sludge, surface water, sediments and biota.