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2022
2023
2023
Reviews and syntheses: Arctic fire regimes and emissions in the 21st century
In recent years, the pan-Arctic region has experienced increasingly extreme fire seasons. Fires in the northern high latitudes are driven by current and future climate change, lightning, fuel conditions, and human activity. In this context, conceptualizing and parameterizing current and future Arctic fire regimes will be important for fire and land management as well as understanding current and predicting future fire emissions. The objectives of this review were driven by policy questions identified by the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP) Working Group and posed to its Expert Group on Short-Lived Climate Forcers. This review synthesizes current understanding of the changing Arctic and boreal fire regimes, particularly as fire activity and its response to future climate change in the pan-Arctic have consequences for Arctic Council states aiming to mitigate and adapt to climate change in the north. The conclusions from our synthesis are the following. (1) Current and future Arctic fires, and the adjacent boreal region, are driven by natural (i.e. lightning) and human-caused ignition sources, including fires caused by timber and energy extraction, prescribed burning for landscape management, and tourism activities. Little is published in the scientific literature about cultural burning by Indigenous populations across the pan-Arctic, and questions remain on the source of ignitions above 70∘ N in Arctic Russia. (2) Climate change is expected to make Arctic fires more likely by increasing the likelihood of extreme fire weather, increased lightning activity, and drier vegetative and ground fuel conditions. (3) To some extent, shifting agricultural land use and forest transitions from forest–steppe to steppe, tundra to taiga, and coniferous to deciduous in a warmer climate may increase and decrease open biomass burning, depending on land use in addition to climate-driven biome shifts. However, at the country and landscape scales, these relationships are not well established. (4) Current black carbon and PM2.5 emissions from wildfires above 50 and 65∘ N are larger than emissions from the anthropogenic sectors of residential combustion, transportation, and flaring. Wildfire emissions have increased from 2010 to 2020, particularly above 60∘ N, with 56 % of black carbon emissions above 65∘ N in 2020 attributed to open biomass burning – indicating how extreme the 2020 wildfire season was and how severe future Arctic wildfire seasons can potentially be. (5) What works in the boreal zones to prevent and fight wildfires may not work in the Arctic. Fire management will need to adapt to a changing climate, economic development, the Indigenous and local communities, and fragile northern ecosystems, including permafrost and peatlands. (6) Factors contributing to the uncertainty of predicting and quantifying future Arctic fire regimes include underestimation of Arctic fires by satellite systems, lack of agreement between Earth observations and official statistics, and still needed refinements of location, conditions, and previous fire return intervals on peat and permafrost landscapes. This review highlights that much research is needed in order to understand the local and regional impacts of the changing Arctic fire regime on emissions and the global climate, ecosystems, and pan-Arctic communities.
2021
Review on the methodology supporting the health impact assessment by the European Environment Agency
2020
2017
Review of the Assessment of Industrial Emissions with Mosses
Commissioned by Norwegian Environmental Agency, NILU - Norwegian Institute for Air Research has surveyed the literature on the topic of “Assessment of industrial emissions using moss”. The purpose is to provide an overview of published knowledge on possible relationships between metal concentrations in moss and air quality, emissions, uptake in other organisms and impacts on environment and health. In addition, there was a request for information on whether other countries use moss surveys around industries and, if so, how the results are used by the authorities. The literature search resulted in 51 relevant publications, which mostly are from the period 2016-2019. The results of these publications show that moss is a good passive sampler for airborne contaminants and can provide valuable information on chemical signature and deposition of metals. No studies have been found that relates concentration in moss to air quality or amount emission from selected industries. A single 2019 study attempts to link moss concentration in context of health effects. A survey among the participating countries in ICP-Vegetation shows that results from moss surveys so far not have been used by authorities in a regulatory context.
NILU
2019
2004
This report presents the results of the European Union Action
on Black Carbon in the Arctic (EUA-BCA) initiative’s review of
observation capacities and data availability for black carbon in the Arctic region.
EUA-BCA/AMAP
2019
2020
Review of methods that can be used in the assessment of atmospheric deposition
There are three main approaches for estimating the atmospheric deposition: 1) From measurements of air and precipitation chemistry combined with statistical interpolation, 2) Chemical transport models, 3) Combined observations and atmospheric model calculations. This report reviews these different approaches and come with some general recommendations on the different strategies and the way forward for Poland.
The report was made for the project "Strengthening of atmospheric deposition assessment in Poland based on Norwegian experience" under the program "Environment, Energy and Climate Change", financed by the European Economic Area Financial Mechanism 2014-2021".
NILU
2023
Review of Interpreting Gaseous Pollution Data Regarding Heritage Objects
Pollutant gases pose a significant risk to some cultural heritage objects, and surveys have shown that the professionals involved consider themselves to lack knowledge to fully assess risk. Three approaches towards risk assessment, research results, standards and damage functions have been considered. An assessment tool has been developed, collating over 4000 research reports into a scheme for the impact on 22 materials of acetic and formic acids, nitrogen dioxide, ozone and reduced sulphur gases. The application of doses or concentrations has been considered, the impact of measurement time compared to annual exposure investigated and a simple tool derived.
MDPI
2023
Review of assessment of existing CAS/DAS, review of technical specification for CAS/DAS. NILU OR
NILU og GIOS utfører prosjektet "Strengthening the air quality assessment system in Poland, based on Norwegian experience". Denne rapporten beskriver NILUs evaluering av dagens datainnsamlingssystemer og GIOS' spesifikasjon av den nye løsningen.
2013
Review of ambient air quality monitoring programme in Poland. NILU OR
The Norwegian Institute for Air Research - NILU and the Chief Inspectorate of Environmental Protection - GIO¿ are implementing the project : 'Strengthening the air quality assessment system in Poland, based on Norwegian experience' as part of the programme ¿Improving Environmental Monitoring and Inspection¿ within the framework of the European Economic Area 2009-2014.
A part of this project is to review the existing ambient air quality monitoring programme in operation in Poland based upon the report prepared by GIOS: ¿Information on monitoring equipment used in Voivodeship networks within the National Environmental Monitoring and supplementary data providing grounds for network equipment analyses¿.
The NILU assessment confirms the needs described by GIOS to carry out an intensive monitoring of air quality, especially as regards PM10, PM2.5, benzo(a)pyrene and ozone. NILU advices GIOS to include the modelling results when evaluating the needs for expanding the network for ozone.NILU recommends to evaluate the needs for further stations in relation to securing the data capture rate as requested by the EU Directive.
In general, NILU advices GIOS towards having a more robust network that meets the Directive requirements regarding data coverage and ensures enough information for the WIOSs to do assessment and planning.
2013
2010
Det er utført spredningsberegninger for utslipp fra et kombinert olje- og biobrenselanlegg i Ranheim. Maksimale bakkekonsentrasjoner vil ligge under anbefalte retningslinjer ved anbefalt pipedimensjon.
2014
Reviderte spredningsberegninger for utslipp til luft fra et fjernvarmeanlegg i Skedsmo kommune. NILU OR
2008
Reviderte spredningsberegninger for utslipp til luft fra et biobrenselanlegg ved Lommedalen skole. NILU OR
2009
Reviderte spredningsberegninger for utslipp til luft fra energisentral i Nydalen, Oslo. NILU OR
Det er utført sprednings- og skorsteinshøydeberegninger for utslipp fra planlagt energisentral i Nydalen, Oslo. Maksimale bakkekonsentrasjoner vil ligge under anbefalt retningslinje ved oppgitte anleggsdata og anbefalt pipehøyde.
2011
Reviderte spredningsberegninger for utslipp til luft fra en gassturbin, StatoilHydro Tjeldbergodden. NILU OR
2008
Reviderte spredningsberegninger for utslipp til luft fra Eidsiva Bioenergi AS Kallerud, Gjøvik NILU OR
2010
Reviderte spredningsberegninger for utslipp til luft fra avfallsforbrenningsanlegg i Karmøy kommune. NILU OR
2007