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PublicationPikMe: a flexible prioritization tool for chemicals of emerging concern
Wennberg, Aina Charlotte; Rostkowski, Pawel; Reid, Malcolm James (2025)
Abstract Identifying new contaminants of emerging concern remains a complex task due to the sheer number of chemical substances potentially released into the environment, the scattered sources of information, and…
PublicationHarmonisation of methane isotope ratio measurements from different laboratories using atmospheric samples
Dasgupta, Bibhasvata; Menoud, Malika; Veen, Carina van der; Levin, Ingeborg; Veidt, Cordelia; Moossen, Heiko; Michel, Sylvia Englund; Sperlich, Peter; Morimoto, Shinji; Fujita, Ryo; Umezawa, Taku; Platt, Stephen Matthew; Zwaaftink, Christine Groot; Myhre, Cathrine Lund; Fisher, Rebecca; Lowry, David; Nisbet, Euan G.; France, James; Maisch, Ceres Woolley; Brailsford, Gordon; Moss, Rowena; Goto, Daisuke; Pandey, Sudhanshu; Houweling, Sander; Warwick, Nicola; Röckmann, Thomas (2025)
Abstract. Establishing interlaboratory compatibility among measurements of stable isotope ratios of atmospheric methane (δ13C-CH4 and δD-CH4) is challenging. Significant offsets are common because laboratories have different ties to the VPDB…
PublicationKunnskapsgrunnlag for Mattilsynets arbeid med å beskytte drikkevann mot kjemisk og fysisk forurensning fra vindkraftverk på land
Alexander, Jan; Kvalem, Helen Engelstad; Mariussen, Espen; Ruus, Anders; Schlabach, Martin; Steffensen, Inger-Lise; Knutsen, Helle Katrine; Amlund, Heidi; Dahl, Lisbeth; Hannisdal, Rita; Olsen, Ann-Karin Hardie; Samdal, Ingunn Anita (2025)
Etablering av vindkraftverk på land kan medføre en risiko for drikkevann når installasjonene ligger i eller nær vanntilsigsområder til drikkevannskilder. Denne rapporten, utarbeidet av VKM på oppdrag fra Mattilsynet, gir…
PublicationDescription and evaluation of airborne microplastics in the United Kingdom Earth System Model (UKESM1.1) using GLOMAP-mode
McErlich, Cameron; Goddard, Felix; Aves, Alex; Hardacre, Catherine; Evangeliou, Nikolaos; Hewitt, Alan J.; Revell, Laura E. (2025)
Abstract. Airborne microplastics are a recently identified atmospheric aerosol species with potential air quality and climate impacts, yet they are not currently represented in global climate models. Here, we describe…
PublicationIRISCC: Advancing Environmental Science through Integrated Services for Climate Change Risks
Haapanala, Päivi; Brus, Magdalena; Nikolaidis, Nikolaos; Bäck, Jaana; Kivekäs, Niku; Kutsch, Werner; Schaap, Dick; Larsen, Klaus Steenberg; Altieri, Rosa Maria Petracca; Myhre, Cathrine Lund; Korsgaad, Katrine; Sundet, Sanna Sorvari; Rinne, Janne (2025)
PublicationEstimation of Spatial-temporal Source Term of Chernobyl Wildfires using Deep Neural Network Prior
Smidl, Vaclav; Brozova, Antonie; Tichy, Ondrej; Evangeliou, Nikolaos (2025)
PublicationAtmospheric microplastics emissions estimation and uncertainty quantification using Gibbs sampler
Tichý, Ondřej; Košík, Václav; Šmídl, Václav; Evangeliou, Nikolaos (2025)
PublicationAtmospheric microplastic measurements reconciliation with emission estimates: A Lagrangian approach
Evangelou, Ioanna; Evangeliou, Nikolaos; Stohl, Andreas (2025)
PublicationGlobal climate model development: Adding microplastics to the UK Earth System Model
McErlich, Cameron; Hardacre, Catherine; Goddard, Felix; Evangeliou, Nikolaos; Revell, Laura (2025)
NewsStorm surges and floods will pose a greater risk to the Norwegian economy in the future
Scientists at NILU have analysed how vulnerable the Norwegian economy and business sector will be in the event of an increasing number of flood events. In the future, we may have storm surges that are three times more destructive than the worst events today.
PublicationAssessing anthropogenic and natural aerosol sources in the Arctic: A baseline to detect changes due to climate change (AAA-Source)
Becagli, Silvia; Barbaro, Elena; Eckhardt, Sabine; Gilardoni, Stefania; Krejci, Radovan; Mazzola, Mauro; Park, Ki-Tae; Severi, Mirko; Traversi, Rita; Yttri, Karl Espen; Zieger, Paul (2025)
PublicationAirborne microplastics on the move: Urban Europe as a source to remote regions
Herzke, Dorte; Schmidt, Natascha; Lervik, Astrid Elise; Schulze, Dorothea; Celentano, Samuel; Eckhardt, Sabine; Arp, Hans Peter Heinrich; Evangeliou, Nikolaos (2025)
This study presents a comprehensive assessment of unique parallel measurements of surface airborne and deposited microplastics (AMPs) across urban and remote sites in Norway, employing pyrolysis-GC/MS for polymer-specific analysis. MPs…
PublicationModulation of the Semi-Annual Oscillation by Stratospheric Sudden Warmings as Seen in the High-Altitude JAWARA Re-analyses
Zhang, Jiarong; Orsolini, Yvan; Sato, Kaoru (2025)
The semi-annual oscillation (SAO) dominates seasonal variability in the equatorial stratosphere and mesosphere. However, the seasonally dependent modulation of the SAO in the stratosphere (SSAO) and mesosphere (MSAO) by sudden…
PublicationMonitoring of environmental contaminants in air and precipitation. Annual report 2024
Halvorsen, Helene Lunder; Pfaffhuber, Katrine Aspmo; Nipen, Maja; Bohlin-Nizzetto, Pernilla; Berglen, Tore Flatlandsmo; Nikiforov, Vladimir; Hartz, William Frederik (2025)
This report presents air monitoring data from 2024 for the Norwegian monitoring programme "Atmospheric contaminants". The results cover 16 groups comprising of 260 organic compounds (regulated and non-regulated) as well…
PublicationState of the Climate in 2025: Global Climate
Dunn, R. J. H.; Blannin, J.; Willett, K. M.; Gobron, N.; Morris, G. A.; Ades, Melanie; Adler, Robert; Alexe, Mihai; Allan, Richard P.; Anderson, John; Anneville, Orlane; Aono, Yasuyuki; Arguez, Anthony; Armenteras-Pascual, Dolors; Arosio, Carlo; Asher, Elizabeth; Augustine, John A.; Azorin-Molina, Cesar; Baez-Villanueva, Oscar M.; Barichivich, Jonathan; Baron, Alexandre; Beck, Hylke E.; Bellouin, Nicolas; Benedetti, Angela; Blenkinsop, Stephen; Bock, Olivier; Bodin, Xavier; Bonte, Olivier; Bosilovich, Michael G.; Boucher, Olivier; Bowman, Kevin; Buehler, Sarah A.; Bunno, Ayaka; Byrne, Michael; Campos, Diego; Cappucci, Fabrizio; Carrea, Laura; Casado-Rodríguez, Jesús; Chang, Kai-Lan; Christiansen, Hanne H; Christy, John R.; Chung, Eui-Seok; Ciasto, Laura M.; Clingan, Scott; Coldewey-Egbers, Melanie; Cooley, Sarah; Cooper, Owen R.; Cornes, Richard C.; Covey, Curt; Crétaux, Jean-Francois; Crimmins, Theresa; Crotwell, Molly; Culpepper, Joshua; Cusicanqui, Diego; Davis, Sean M.; Jeu, Richard A. M. de; Laat, Jos de; Degenstein, Doug; Delaloye, Reynald; Tomaso, Enza Di; Dokulil, Martin T.; Donat, Markus G.; Dorigo, Wouter A.; Dugan, Hilary; Durre, Imke; Dutton, Geoff; Effertz, Peter; Enno, Sven-Erik; Estilow, Thomas W.; Estrella, Nicole; Fereday, David; Fioletov, Vitali E.; Flemming, Johannes; Formanek, Maud; Foster, Michael J.; Frederikse, Thomas; Frith, Stacey M.; Froidevaux, Lucien; Füllekrug, Martin; Gallemann, Thomas; Garforth, Judith; Garg, Jay; Ghent, Darren; Gollop, Amee; Good, Elizabeth; Goodman, Steven; Goto, Atsushi; Grimaldi, Stefania; Gruber, Alexander; Gu, Guojun; Guglielmin, Mauro; Haghdoost, Shekoofeh; Hahn, Sebastian; Haimberger, Leopold; Hall, Brad D.; Harlan, Merritt E.; Harris, Bethan L.; Harris, Ian; Hemming, Deborah L.; Ho, Shu-peng (Ben); Holliday, Rebecca; Holzworth, Robert; Horton, Radley M.; Hrbáček, Filip; Hu, Guojie; Inness, Antje; Isaksen, Ketil; John, Viju O.; Jones, Philip D.; Junod, Robert; Kääb, Andreas; Kaiser, Johannes; Kaufmann, Viktor; Kellerer-Pirklbauer, Andreas; Kent, Elizabeth C.; Khaykin, Sergey; Kidd, Richard; Kipling, Zak; Kirkpatrick, Sarah; Kondragunta, Shobha; Kovács, Dávid D.; Kraemer, Benjamin M.; Laas, Alo; Lan, Xin; Lantz, Kathleen O.; Lavers, David A.; Leibensperger, Eric; Lems, Johanna; Lennard, Chris; Levenson, Eric S.; Liley, Ben; Lo, Y. T. Eunice; Loeb, Norman G.; Loyola, Diego; Macara, Gregor; Magnin, Florence; Matsuzaki, Shin-Ichiro; Matthews, Tom; Mayer, Michael; McVicar, Tim R.; Mears, Carl A.; Menzel, Annette; Merchant, Christopher J.; Meyer, Michael F.; Miralles, Diego G.; Montzka, Stephan A.; Morice, Colin; Morino, Isamu; Mrekaj, Ivan; Mühle, Jens; Nance, D.; Nicolas, Julien P.; Noetzli, Jeannette; O’Keefe, John; Ollinik, Jessica Erin; Osborn, Timothy J.; Parrington, Mark; Pellet, Cécile; Pelto, Mauri; Pennington, Elyse; Petersen, Kyle; Phillips, Coda; Pierson, Don; Pinto, Izidine; Po-Chedley, Stephen; Pogliotti, Paolo; Polvani, Lorenzo; Preimesberger, Wolfgang; Price, Colin; Pulkkanen, Merja; Randel, William J.; Raymond, Colin; Remy, Samuel; Ricciardulli, Lucrezia; Richardson, Andrew D.; Robinson, David A.; Rodell, Matthew; Rodriguez-Fernandez, Nemesio; Rogers, Cassandra D.W.; Rohini, P.; Rosenlof, Karen H.; Rozanov, Alexei; Rozkošný, Jozef; Rusanovskaya, Olga O.; Rutishauser, This; Sabeerali, C. T.; Sakai, Tetsu; Salamon, Peter; Sánchez-Lugo, Ahira; Sawaengphokhai, Parnchai; Schenzinger, Verena; Schmid, Martin; Sezaki, Fumi; Shao, Xi; Sharma, Sapna; Shi, Lei; Shimaraeva, Svetlana V.; Shinohara, Ryuichiro; Silow, Eugene A.; Simmons, Adrian J.; Smith, Katie; Smith, Sharon L.; Soden, Brian J.; Sofieva, Viktoria; Soldo, Logan; Sreejith, O. P.; Stackhouse, Jr.; Stauffer, Ryan M.; Steinbrecht, Wolfgang; Steiner, Andrea K.; Stevens, Thea; Stoy, Paul C.; Streletskiy, Dmitry A.; Taha, Ghassan; Thackeray, Stephen J.; Thibert, Emmanuel; Timofeyev, Maxim A.; Tourpali, Kleareti; Tronquo, Emma; Tye, Mari R.; Urraca, Ruben; A, Ronald van der; Schrier, Gerard van der; VanScoy, Greta; Vliet, Arnold J. H. van; Veal, Karen; Verburg, Piet; Vernier, Jean-Paul; Vimont, Isaac J.; Viticchie, Bartolomeo; Vivero, Sebastián; Vömel, Holger; Vose, Russell S.; Wang, Donqian; Wang, Ray H. J.; Waring, Abigail Marie; Warnock, Taran; Weber, Mark; Wei, Zigang; Wiese, David N.; Wild, Jeannette D.; Williams, Earle; Wong, Takmeng; Wood, Tom; Woolway, Richard Iestyn; Worden, John; Yang, Kai; Yin, Xungang; Zeng, Zhenzhong; Zhao, Lin; Ziemke, Jerry R.; Ziese, Markus; Zotta, Ruxandra-Maria; Zou, Cheng-Zhi (2025)
ProjectEnhancing Urban Sustainability for Environmental Quality and Human Well-being through Nature-Based Solutions Transformation Labs (Naturescape)
Revolutionizing Urban Sustainability with NatureScape Led by NILU, NatureScape includes Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences, University College Dublin, Uniwersytet Przyrodniczy w Lublinie, Lisboa E-Nova, Nodibinajums Baltic Studies Centre, and…
PublicationIndustrial and public infrastructure as local sources of organic contaminants in the Arctic
Evenset, Anita; Wit, Cynthia de; C.G. Muir, Derek; Elena Barbaro, ; Hippel, Frank von; Gabrielsen, Geir W.; Breedveld, Gijs D.; M Kirkelund, Gunvor; Langberg, Håkon Austad; Lyche, Jan Ludvig; Katrin Vorkamp, ; Pedersen, Kristine B.; Reiersen, Lars Otto; J Gunnarsdottir, Maria; Nicoletta Ademollo, ; Erland Jensen, Pernille; Roland Kallenborn, ; Simonetta Corsolini, ; Nash, Susan Bengtson; Hartz, William Frederik; Yi-Fan Li, ; Zifeng Zhang, (2025)
PublicationDetection of Body Shaming in Social Media: Traditional Machine Learning vs. Transformer-based Models
Jacob, Jyothy A.; Chatterjee, Ayan; Shrestha, Raju (2025)
PublicationNature-based Solutions to address climate and societal challenges in small and medium-sized islands
Balzan, Mario V; Igondová, Erika; Serra, Elisa; Moustakas, Aristides; Mansoldo, Mark; Dönmez, Abdullah Hüseyin; Tsatsou, Alexandra; Kumuk, Berre; Zoumides, Christos; Tzirkalli, Elli; Özgenç, Emine Keleş; Wolff, Erich; Sica, Francesco; Paul, Franziska; Zittis, George; Fenu, Giuseppe; Liu, Hai-Ying; Kokkoris, Ioannis P.; Vogiatzakis, Ioannis; Christoforidi, Irene; Filippi, Jean-José; Boucoyannis, Katerina; Viviana, Ligorini; Stamati, Marilena; Antic, Marina; Kumuk, Osman; Manolaki, Paraskevi; Kleitou, Periklis; Davids, Peter; Pineda-Martos, Rocío; Zotos, Savvas; Ždero, Senka; Shamir, Shiri Zemah; Trenkova, Tanya; Mandelberg, Yael Shaked; Shamir, Ziv Zemah; Srđević, Zorica; Balza, Mario V (2025)
PublicationMobile Peer-to-Peer Technology used to Promote Spontaneous Collaboration.
Wang, A.I.; Sørensen, C.-F.; Fossum, T. (2005)
PublicationSO2 and ash plume retrievals using MSG-SEVIRI measurements. Test case: 24 November 2006 Mt. Etna eruption.
Corradini, S.; Merucci, L.; Silvestri, M.; Musacchio, M.; Spinetti, C.; Piscini, A.; Buongiorno, M.F.; Prata, A. (2008)
PublicationA Low-Cost Image Sensor for Particulate Matter Detection to Streamline Citizen Science Campaigns on Air Quality Monitoring
Shah, Syed Mohsin Ali; Casado-Mansilla, Diego; López-de-Ipiña, Diego; Fernández, Eduardo Illueca; Hassani, Amirhossein; Pérez, Alejandro Pujante (2024)
PublicationActris, Earlinet, and Cloudnet Cal/Val Contribution to Earthcare Mission
Marinou, Eleni; Baars, Holger; Mona, Lucia; O’Connor, Ewan; Rusli, Stephanie; Koopman, Rob; Fjæraa, Ann Mari; Nicolae, Doina (2024)
PublicationHvorfor er det tusenvis av kjemikalier i plast?
Spilde, Ingrid (2025)
PublicationTransport of wildfire smoke into the Arctic
Eckhardt, Sabine; Stebel, Kerstin; Evangeliou, Nikolaos (2025)
PublicationAtmospheric methane concentrations
Eckhardt, Sabine; Thompson, Rona Louise; Zwaaftink, Christine Groot; Bruhwiler, Lori; Platt, Stephen Matthew (2025)
PublicationQuantifying European SF6 emissions from 2005 to 2021 using a large inversion ensemble
Vojta, Martin; Plach, Andreas; Thompson, Rona Louise; Purohit, Pallav; Stanley, Kieran; O'Doherty, Simon; Young, Dickon; Pitt, Joe; Arduini, Jgor; Lan, Xin; Stohl, Andreas (2025)
Abstract. Sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) is a highly potent and long-lived greenhouse gas whose atmospheric concentrations are increasing due to human emissions. In this study, we determine European SF6 emissions from…
PublicationRevidert tiltaksutredning for lokal luftkvalitet i Tromsø
Weydahl, Torleif; Markelj, Miha; Walker, Sam-Erik; Lysø, Tonje (2025)
Stiftelsen NILU har, i samarbeid med Transportøkonomisk institutt (TØI), utarbeidet en revidert tiltaksutredning for lokal luftkvalitet i Tromsø kommune for perioden 2025 til 2030. Arbeidet omfatter en kartlegging av luftkvaliteten…
Stine Fallang Sæby
Administrative Coordinator
NewsNew report on Monitoring, Reporting and Verification for marine Carbon Dioxide Removal
https://nilu.com/2025/11/new-report-on-marine-carbon-dioxide-removal/
November 17th, 2025: A group of internationally renowned marine scientists under the European Marine Board published the Future Science Brief on ‘Monitoring, Reporting and Verification for marine Carbon Dioxide Removal’ today.
PublicationBruk av høyoppløselig massespektrometri for en uhildet kartlegging av organisk-kjemiske forurensning i nedbørfeltet til drikkevannskilden Gjersjøen
Froment, Jean Francois; Aamodt, Randi Margrete; Gundersen, Hans; Skaar, Jøran Solnes; Rostkowski, Pawel (2025)
Denne rapporten beskriver en studie utført av NILU for Nordre Follo kommune, med støtte fra Folkehelseinstituttet. Målet var å prøve uhildet kartlegging som metode for å undersøke hvilke organisk-kjemiske forbindelser…
PublicationIkke-spesifikk screening av støv fra norske husholdninger
Froment, Jean Francois; Skaar, Jøran Solnes; Gundersen, Hans; Rostkowski, Pawel (2025)
Denne rapporten presenterer resultater fra en ikke-spesifikk screening av husstøv fra norske hjem. Totalt ble 203 kjemiske forbindelser identifisert, med ftalater som den mest dominerende stoffgruppen. Flere av de påviste…
PublicationNO2-måling i omgivelsene til Eramet Sauda
Hak, Claudia; Størdal, Guro (2025)
På oppdrag fra Eramet Sauda AS har NILU utført målinger av NO2 i omgivelsene til smelteverket i Sauda. Målingene ble utført med NOx-monitor ved Birkelandsvegen nordøst for bedriften. I tillegg…
PublicationData Report 2023. Particulate matter, carbonaceous and inorganic compounds
Hjellbrekke, Anne-Gunn (2025)
This report presents an overview of annual statistical summaries and methods for sampling and analysis of particulate matter, carbonaceous and inorganic compounds measured under the EMEP monitoring programme in 2023.
PublicationVOC measurements 2023
Solberg, Sverre; Hamer, Paul David; Claude, Anja; Reimann, Stefan (2025)
This report documents the EMEP VOC monitoring carried out in 2023. The levels of the measured species in 2023 are presented as well as the 2023-status and history of the…
PublicationOzone measurements 2023
Hjellbrekke, Anne-Gunn; Solberg, Sverre (2025)
This report gives an overview of annual statistics and results from the monitoring programme of ozone in EMEP 2023.
PublicationBiomethanol as a Marine Fuel Within Land Use Sustainability Boundaries
Esfandiari, Homa; Muri, Helene; Kramel, Diogo (2025)
Global shipping is an essential, energy-efficient enabler of trade, yet it remains a hard-to-abate sector. With shipping demand projected to continue to rise in the coming decades, identifying scalable and…
PublicationFrom concern to confidence: Tackling hazardous chemicals and advancing safe and sustainable design
Abbasi, Golnoush (2025)
PublicationAddressing Challenges with Chemicals of Concern in the Plastic Value Chains
Abbasi, Golnoush (2025)
PublicationMachine-Learning-Driven Reconstruction of Organic Aerosol Sources across Dense Monitoring Networks in Europe
Jouanny, Adrien; Upadhyay, Abhishek; Jiang, Jianhui; Vasilakos, Petros; Via, Marta; Cheng, Yun; Flueckiger, Benjamin; Uzu, Gaëlle; Jaffrezo, Jean-Luc; Voiron, Céline; Favez, Olivier; Chebaicheb, Hasna; Bourin, Aude; Font, Anna; Riffault, Véronique; Freney, Evelyn; Marchand, Nicolas; Chazeau, Benjamin; Conil, Sébastien; Petit, Jean-Eudes; Rosa, Jesús D. de la; Campa, Ana Sanchez de la; Navarro, Daniel Sanchez-Rodas; Castillo, Sonia; Alastuey, Andrés; Querol, Xavier; Reche, Cristina; Minguillón, María Cruz; Maasikmets, Marek; Keernik, Hannes; Giardi, Fabio; Colombi, Cristina; Cuccia, Eleonora; Gilardoni, Stefania; Rinaldi, Matteo; Paglione, Marco; Poluzzi, Vanes; Massabò, Dario; Belis, Claudio; Grange, Stuart; Hueglin, Christoph; Canonaco, Francesco; Tobler, Anna; Timonen, Hilkka J.; Aurela, Minna; Ehn, Mikael; Stavroulas, Iasonas; Bougiatioti, Aikaterini; Eleftheriadis, Konstantinos; Gini, Maria I.; Zografou, Olga; Manousakas, Manousos-Ioannis; Chen, Gang Ian; Green, David Christopher; Pokorná, Petra; Vodička, Petr; Lhotka, Radek; Schwarz, Jaroslav; Schemmel, Andrea; Atabakhsh, Samira; Herrmann, Hartmut; Poulain, Laurent; Flentje, Harald; Heikkinen, Liine; Kumar, Varun; Gon, Hugo Anne Denier van der; Aas, Wenche; Platt, Stephen Matthew; Yttri, Karl Espen; Salma, Imre; Vasanits, Anikó; Bergmans, Benjamin; Sosedova, Yulia; Necki, Jaroslaw; Ovadnevaite, Jurgita; Lin, Chunshui; Pauraite, Julija; Pikridas, Michael; Sciare, Jean; Vasilescu, Jeni; Belegante, Livio; Alves, Célia; Slowik, Jay G.; Probst-Hensch, Nicole; Vienneau, Danielle; Prévôt, André S. H.; Medbouhi, Aniss Aiman; Banos, Daniel Trejo; Hoogh, Kees de; Daellenbach, Kaspar R.; Krymova, Ekaterina; Haddad, Imad El (2025)
Fine particulate matter (PM) poses a major threat to public health, with organic aerosol (OA) being a key component. Major OA sources, hydrocarbon-like OA (HOA), biomass burning OA (BBOA), and…