Report

Noice assessment activities. ETC/ACM Technical Paper, 2015/6

Sousa Santos, G.; Blanes, N.; de Smet, P.; Guerreiro, C.; Nugent, C.

NILU's Environmental Management Report 2015. NILU OR

Braathen, O.-A.; Marsteen, L.; Skogvoll, T.L.; Andresen, E.B.; Fjeldstad, H.

One of NILU's main goals is to study the impact of pollution and supply decision-makers with a sound scientific platform for choosing measures to reduce the negative impacts. Furthermore, it is very important for the institute to have control of the impact the institute¿s own activities may have on the environment and to reduce negative impacts as far as possible.
NILU has for many years been working to improve the status of the environment and to reduce negative impacts. In order to take this one step further, it was decided that the institute should restructure the work according to a relevant environmental standard and to seek certification according to the same standard.
The chosen standard is ISO 14001:2004 (Environmental management systems - Requirements with guidance for use) and NILU achieved certification according to this standard in October 2010. This report summarizes the results of the system in 2015.

Air pollution trends in the EMEP region between 1990 and 2012. Joint Report of the EMEP Task Force on Measurements and Modelling (TFMM), Chemical Co-ordinating Centre (CCC), Meteorological Synthesizing Centre-East (MSC-E), Meteorological Synthesizing Centre-West (MSC-W). EMEP/CCC

Colette, A.; Aas, W.; Banin, L.; Braban, C.F.; Ferm, M.; González Ortiz, A.; Ilyin, I.; Mar, K.; Pandolfi, M.; Putaud, J.-P.; Shatalov, V.; Solberg, S.; Spindler, G.; Tarasova, O.; Vana, M.; Adani, M.; Almodovar, P.; Berton, E.; Bessagnet, B.; Bohlin-Nizzetto, P.; Boruvkova, J.; Breivik, K.; Briganti, G.; Cappelletti, A.; Cuvelier, K.; Derwent, R.; D'Isidoro, M.; Fagerli, H.; Funk, C.; Garcia Vivanco, M.; González Ortiz, A.; Haeuber, R.; Hueglin, C.; Jenkins, S.; Kerr, J.; de Leeuw, F.; Lynch, J.; Manders, A.; Mircea, M.; Pay, M.T.; Pritula, D.; Putaud, J.-P.; Querol, X.; Raffort,V.; Reiss, I.; Roustan, Y.; Sauvage, S.; Scavo, K.; Simpson, D.; Smith, R.I.; Tang, Y.S.; Theobald, M.; Tørseth, K.; Tsyro, S.; van Pul, A.; Vidic, S.; Wallasch, M.; Wind, P.

NILU's Strategic Institute Initiatives (SIS) 2015. NILU report

Aas, W.; Breivik, K.; Fiebig, M.; Høiskar, B.A.K.; Rundén-Pran, E.; Schlabach, M.; Sundseth, K.

Each of NILU¿s Strategic Institute Initiatives(SIS) is required to deliver a popular science report annually to the Research Council. This report contains all of NILU¿s annual SIS-reports for 2015.

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.