Changes of emissions and atmospheric deposition of mercury, lead, and cadmium

JM Pacyna, EG Pacyna, W Aas - Atmospheric environment, 2009 - Elsevier
This paper reviews the information on trends of past emissions of mercury, lead, and
cadmium in Europe, as well as examines current levels and future scenarios of these …

Sources of particulate-matter air pollution and its oxidative potential in Europe

KR Daellenbach, G Uzu, J Jiang, LE Cassagnes… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Particulate matter is a component of ambient air pollution that has been linked to millions of
annual premature deaths globally,–. Assessments of the chronic and acute effects of …

Current challenges in air sampling of semivolatile organic contaminants: sampling artifacts and their influence on data comparability

L Melymuk, P Bohlin, O Sáňka, K Pozo… - … science & technology, 2014 - ACS Publications
With current science and policy needs, more attention is being given to expanding and
improving air sampling of semivolatile organic contaminants (SVOCs). However, a wide …

Introduction to the European Monitoring and Evaluation Programme (EMEP) and observed atmospheric composition change during 1972–2009

K Tørseth, W Aas, K Breivik, AM Fjæraa… - Atmospheric …, 2012 - acp.copernicus.org
European scale harmonized monitoring of atmospheric composition was initiated in the
early 1970s, and the activity has generated a comprehensive dataset (available at …

Heavy metal and nitrogen concentrations in mosses are declining across Europe whilst some “hotspots” remain in 2010

H Harmens, DA Norris, K Sharps, G Mills, R Alber… - Environmental …, 2015 - Elsevier
In recent decades, naturally growing mosses have been used successfully as biomonitors of
atmospheric deposition of heavy metals and nitrogen. Since 1990, the European moss …

Atmospheric monitoring of organic pollutants in the Arctic under the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP): 1993–2006

H Hung, R Kallenborn, K Breivik, Y Su… - Science of the Total …, 2010 - Elsevier
Continuous and comparable atmospheric monitoring programs to study the transport and
occurrence of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in the atmosphere of remote regions is …

Mitigation impact of roadside trees on fine particle pollution

H Ozdemir - Science of the Total Environment, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Fine particulate matter (PM 2.5) is an important air pollutant due to its adverse
health effects. Vehicle emissions make a large contribution to particle concentrations in …

Assessing the influence of meteorological parameters on the performance of polyurethane foam-based passive air samplers

J Klánová, P Èupr, J Kohoutek… - Environmental science & …, 2008 - ACS Publications
Polyurethane foam (PUF) disk passive air samplers were evaluated under field conditions to
assess the effect of temperature and wind speed on the sampling rate for polycyclic aromatic …

Source apportionment of PM2. 5 using positive matrix factorization (PMF) at a rural site in Korea

S Kim, TY Kim, SM Yi, J Heo - Journal of environmental management, 2018 - Elsevier
The sources of different pollutants contributing to ambient fine particles (PM 2.5) on Daebu
Island, Korea, were estimated. Twenty four hour integrated filter samples were collected from …

Spatial variability of POPs in European background air

AK Halse, M Schlabach, S Eckhardt… - Atmospheric …, 2011 - acp.copernicus.org
Passive air samplers (PAS) were deployed at 86 European background sites during summer
2006 in order (i) to gain further insight into spatial patterns of persistent organic pollutants …