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D-Index
58
Citations
15586
World Ranking
3222
National Ranking
35

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1952 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1941 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Harald Sverdrup is affiliated with Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences in Norway. Their research primarily focuses on the intersections of environmental science and engineering, with particular attention to mechanical engineering, environmental engineering, and industrial and manufacturing engineering. Their work also touches on economics and econometrics, and topics related to renewable energy, sustainability, and the environment.

The scientist has contributed extensively to fields including extraction and separation processes, recycling and waste management techniques, environmental impact and sustainability, global energy and sustainability research, metal extraction and bioleaching, climate change policy and economics, as well as pharmaceutical and antibiotic environmental impacts.

Publications by Harald Sverdrup have appeared in several academic venues, notably including Water Air & Soil Pollution, Biophysical Economics and Sustainability, Natural Resources Research, Mining Metallurgy & Exploration, and SOIL. These venues collectively reflect the interdisciplinary nature of the scientist's work bridging environmental and engineering sciences.

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Harald Sverdrup include:

  • Dynamical Modelling of the Global Cement Production and Supply System, Assessing Climate Impacts of Different Future Scenarios, 2023, Water Air & Soil Pollution
  • Modeling Indium Extraction, Supply, Price, Use and Recycling 1930-2200 Using the WORLD7 Model: Implication for the Imaginaries of Sustainable Europe 2050, 2024, Natural Resources Research

In addition to these, co-authored publications with frequent collaborators have included works such as:

  • Modelling Global Nickel Mining, Supply, Recycling, Stocks-in-Use and Price Under Different Resources and Demand Assumptions for 1850-2200, 2021, Mining Metallurgy & Exploration
  • Assessing the Past and Future Sustainability of Global Helium Resources, Extraction, Supply and Use, Using the Integrated Assessment Model WORLD7, 2020, Biophysical Economics and Sustainability

Frequent co-authors of Harald Sverdrup include Anna Hulda Ólafsdóttir, Hördur Haraldsson, Antoniy Elias Sverdrup, Liudmila L. Frolova, and Ole van Allen, indicating a collaborative research network spanning diverse topics related to resource modelling, sustainability assessment, and environmental impact.

The scientist's work encompasses numerous scientific topics including extraction and separation technologies, sustainability challenges, and the modeling of resource supply and recycling strategies. This aligns with their focus on environmental and engineering sciences, addressing complex interactions between human activity and natural resource systems.

Harald Sverdrup has also been associated with awards historically linked to namesakes, such as Member of the National Academy of Sciences and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), although the dates of these honors precede their active publication period and may refer to earlier individuals of the same name.

Best Publications

  • Wind-Driven Currents in a Baroclinic Ocean; with Application to the Equatorial Currents of the Eastern Pacific.

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  • The kinetics of base cation release due to chemical weathering

    H.U. Sverdrup

  • The Oceans, Their Physics, Chemistry and General Biology

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  • Calculating field weathering rates using a mechanistic geochemical model PROFILE

    H. Sverdrup;P. Warfvinge

  • CALCULATING CRITICAL LOADS FOR ACIDITY WITH THE SIMPLE MASS BALANCE METHOD

    Harald Sverdrup;Wim De Vries

  • Calculating critical loads of acid deposition with PROFILE-a steady-state soil chemistry model.

    Per Warfvinge;Harald Sverdrup

  • Weathering of primary silicate minerals in the natural soil environment in relation to a chemical weathering model

    H. Sverdrup;P. Warfvinge

  • The Oceans: Their Physics, Chemistry, and General Biology

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  • On modelling the global copper mining rates, market supply, copper price and the end of copper reserves

    Harald U. Sverdrup;Kristin Vala Ragnarsdottir;Deniz Koca

  • Mapping critical loads : a guidance to the criteria, calculations, data collection and mapping of critical loads

    H. Sverdrup;W. de Vries;A. Henriksen

  • Experimental design of multifactor climate change experiments with elevated CO2, warming and drought: the CLIMAITE project

    Teis Nørgaard Mikkelsen;Claus Beier;S. Jonasson;M. Holmstrup

  • Estimating field weathering rates using laboratory kinetics

    Harald Sverdrup;Per Warfvinge

  • ForSAFE - an integrated process-oriented forest model for long-term sustainability assessments

    Patrik Wallman;Mats G.E. Svensson;Harald Sverdrup;Salim Belyazid

  • Modelling long-term cation supply in acidified forest stands.

    Per Warfvinge;Ursula Falkengren-Grerup;Harald Sverdrup;Bent Andersen

  • Modelling global extraction, supply, price and depletion of the extractable geological resources with the LITHIUM model

    Harald Ulrik Sverdrup

  • An assessment of metal supply sustainability as an input to policy: security of supply extraction rates, stocks-in-use, recycling, and risk of scarcity

    Harald U. Sverdrup;Kristin Vala Ragnarsdottir;Deniz Koca

  • Review and synthesis of experimental data on organic matter decomposition with respect to the effect of temperature, moisture, and acidity

    Charlotta Walse;Björn Berg;Harald Sverdrup

  • Exploring the possibility of a systematic and generic approach to social sustainability

    Merlina Missimer;Karl-Henrik Robèrt;Göran Broman;Harald Sverdrup

  • Use of dynamic soil-vegetation models to assess impacts of nitrogen deposition on plant species composition: an overview

    W. de Vries;G. W. W. Wamelink;H. van Dobben;J. Kros

  • Long-term base cation mass balances for Swedish forests and the concept of sustainability

    Harald Sverdrup;Kaj Rosen

  • Natural Resources in a Planetary Perspective

    Harald U. Sverdrup;Kristín Vala Ragnarsdóttir

  • Impact of Harvest Intensity on Long-Term Base Cation Budgets in Swedish Forest Soils

    Cecilia Akselsson;Olle Westling;Harald Sverdrup;Johan Holmqvist

  • Nutrient and carbon budgets in forest soils as decision support in sustainable forest management

    Cecilia Akselsson;Olle Westling;Harald Sverdrup;Per Gundersen

  • Nitrogen Deposition, Critical Loads and Biodiversity

    Mark A. Sutton;Kate E. Mason;Lucy J. Sheppard;Harald Sverdrup

Frequent Co-Authors

Anne Probst
Anne Probst Paul Sabatier University
William D. Bowman
William D. Bowman University of Colorado Boulder
Didier Alard
Didier Alard University of Bordeaux
Maximilian Posch
Maximilian Posch International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Jean-Claude Gégout
Jean-Claude Gégout Agro ParisTech
Roland Bobbink
Roland Bobbink Radboud University
Carly J. Stevens
Carly J. Stevens Lancaster University
Eric H. Oelkers
Eric H. Oelkers University of Iceland
Lucy J. Sheppard
Lucy J. Sheppard UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Ingrid Öborn
Ingrid Öborn Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

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