Publikasjoner

Air pollution modelling in Zaragoza. NILU OR

Gram, F.; Chamorro, J.M.

Denne rapporten finnes bare på engelsk.

Air pollution in the border areas of Norway and Russia. Summary report April 1991 - March 1993. Presented by the Expert Group on Studies of Local Air Pollution Problems under the Joint Norwegian-Russian Comm. NILU OR

Sivertsen, B.; Baklanov, A.; Hagen, L O.; Makarova, T.

Air pollution in the border areas Norway-Russia. Suggested future work. NILU F

Sivertsen, B.

Air pollution in Northern Africa. NILU F

Sivertsen, B.

Air pollution in Egypt. NILU F

Sivertsen, B.; El Seoud, A.A.; Fathy, H.; Ahmed, H.

Air pollution impacts from open air burning.

Sivertsen, B.

Air pollution from old ships reaches hazardous levels.

Solbakken, C.F.

Air pollution exposure monitoring and estimation. Part IV: Urban exposure in children.

Clench-Aas, J.; Bartonova, A.; Grønskei, K.E.; Walker, S.E.

Air pollution exposure monitoring and estimation. Part II: Model evaluation and population exposure.

Walker, S.E.; Slørdal, L.H.; Guerreiro, C.; Gram, F.; Grønskei, K.E.

Air pollution exposure monitoring and estimating. Part VI: Ambient exposure of adults in an industrialised region.

Clench-Aas, J.; Bartonova, A.; Grønskei, K E.; Hagen, L.O.; Braathen, O.A.; Walker, S.E.

Air pollution emission inventory using national high-resolution spatial parameters for the Nordic countries and analysis of PM2.5 spatial distribution for road transport and machinery and off-road sectors

Paunu, Ville-Veikko; Karvosenoja, Niko; Segersson, David; Lopez-Aparicio, Susana; Nielsen, Ole-Kenneth; Plejdrup, Marlene S.; Thorsteinsson, Throstur; Vo, Dam Thanh; Kuenen, Jeroen; van der Gon, Hugo Denier; Jalkanen, Jukka-Pekka; Brandt, Jørgen; Geels, Camilla

Air pollution is an important cause of adverse health effects, even in the Nordic countries, which have relatively good air quality. Modelling-based air quality assessment of the health impacts relies on reliable model estimates of ambient air pollution concentrations, which furthermore rely on good-quality spatially resolved emission data. While quantitative emission estimates are the cornerstone of good emission data, description of the spatial distribution of the emissions is especially important for local air quality modelling at high resolution. In this paper we present a new air pollution emission inventory for the Nordic countries with high-resolution spatial allocation (1 km × 1 km) covering the years 1990, 1995, 2000, 2005, 2010, 2012, and 2014. The inventory is available at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10571094 (Paunu et al., 2023). To study the impact of applying national data and methods to the spatial distribution of the emissions, we compared road transport and machinery and off-road sectors to CAMS-REGv4.2, which used a consistent spatial distribution method throughout Europe for each sector. Road transport is a sector with well-established proxies for spatial distribution, while for the machinery and off-road sector, the choice of proxies is not as straightforward as it includes a variety of different type of vehicles and machines operating in various environments. We found that CAMS-REGv4.2 was able to produce similar spatial patterns to our Nordic inventory for the selected sectors. However, the resolution of our Nordic inventory allows for more detailed impact assessment than CAMS-REGv4.2, which had a resolution of 0.1° × 0.05° (longitude–latitude, roughly 5.5 km × 3.5–6.5 km in the Nordic countries). The EMEP/EEA Guidebook chapter on spatial mapping of emissions has recommendations for the sectoral proxies. Based on our analysis we argue that the guidebook should have separate recommendations for proxies for several sub-categories of the machinery and off-road sectors, instead of including them within broader sectors. We suggest that land use data are the best starting point for proxies for many of the subsectors, and they can be combined with other suitable data to enhance the spatial distribution. For road transport, measured traffic flow data should be utilized where possible, to support modelled data in the proxies.

Air pollution - measurements and modelling.

Tønnesen, D.