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Henrik Skov is affiliated with Aarhus University in Denmark, specializing in environmental science and earth and planetary sciences. Their research primarily focuses on atmospheric science, with significant contributions in global and planetary change, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, ecology, and sociology and political science.

Their work extensively covers topics related to atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, atmospheric ozone and climate, atmospheric aerosols and clouds, mercury impact and mitigation studies, air quality and health impacts, and Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics.

Skov has published numerous papers in prominent scientific venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Atmospheric Environment
  • Geophysical Research Letters

Recent publications by Skov include:

  • "Differing Mechanisms of New Particle Formation at Two Arctic Sites," 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • "Time trends of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and Chemicals of Emerging Arctic Concern (CEAC) in Arctic air from 25 years of monitoring," 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Pan-Arctic seasonal cycles and long-term trends of aerosol properties from 10 observatories," 2022, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
  • "Climate change and mercury in the Arctic: Abiotic interactions," 2022, The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Equal abundance of summertime natural and wintertime anthropogenic Arctic organic aerosols," 2022, Nature Geoscience

Skov frequently collaborates with several co-authors, notably:

  • Andreas Maßling
  • Jakob Boyd Pernov
  • Julia Schmale
  • Alfonso Saiz-Lopez
  • Tuukka Petäjä

Best Publications

  • A synthesis of atmospheric mercury depletion event chemistry in the atmosphere and snow

    A. Steffen;T. Douglas;M. Amyot;P. Ariya

  • Cetacean abundance and distribution in European Atlantic shelf waters to inform conservation and management

    Philip Steven Hammond;Kelly Macleod;Per Berggren;David Louis Borchers

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

    Hayley Hung;Roland Kallenborn;Knut Breivik;Knut Breivik;Yushan Su

  • A theoretical study of the oxidation of Hg0 to HgBr2 in the troposphere.

    M. E. Goodsite;J. M. C. Plane;H. Skov

  • Pile driving zone of responsiveness extends beyond 20 km for harbor porpoises (Phocoena phocoena (L.)).

    Jakob Tougaard;Jacob Carstensen;Jonas Teilmann;Henrik Skov

  • Atmospheric mercury concentrations observed at ground-based monitoring sites globally distributed in the framework of the GMOS network

    Francesca Sprovieri;Nicola Pirrone;Mariantonia Bencardino;Francesco D'Amore

  • Temporal trends of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) in arctic air: 20 years of monitoring under the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP).

    Hayley Hung;Athanasios A. Katsoyiannis;Eva Brorström-Lundén;Kristin Olafsdottir

  • An Improved Global Model for Air-Sea Exchange of Mercury: High Concentrations over the North Atlantic

    Anne Laerke Soerensen;Elynor M Sunderland;Christopher D. Holmes;Daniel James Jacob

  • Fate of Elemental Mercury in the Arctic during Atmospheric Mercury Depletion Episodes and the Load of Atmospheric Mercury to the Arctic

    Henrik Skov;Jesper H. Christensen;Michael E. Goodsite;Niels Z. Heidam

  • Differing Mechanisms of New Particle Formation at Two Arctic Sites

    Lisa J. Beck;Nina Sarnela;Heikki Junninen;Heikki Junninen;Clara J. M. Hoppe

  • Substantial contribution of northern high-latitude sources to mineral dust in the Arctic.

    C. D. Groot Zwaaftink;Henrik Grythe;Henrik Grythe;Henrik Grythe;H. Skov;A. Stohl

  • Current model capabilities for simulating black carbon and sulfate concentrations in the Arctic atmosphere: a multi-model evaluation using a comprehensive measurement data set

    S. Eckhardt;Boris Quennehen;Boris Quennehen;D. J. L. Olivié;T. K. Berntsen

  • Annual variability of ice-nucleating particle concentrations at different Arctic locations

    Heike Wex;Lin Huang;Wendy Zhang;Hayley Hung

  • Multidecadal trends in aerosol radiative forcing over the Arctic: Contribution of changes in anthropogenic aerosol to Arctic warming since 1980

    Thomas J. Breider;Loretta J. Mickley;Daniel J. Jacob;Cui Ge

  • Occurrence and sources of particulate nitro-polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in ambient air in Denmark

    Anders Feilberg;Morten W B. Poulsen;Torben Nielsen;Henrik Skov

  • Urban benzene and population exposure

    Vincenzo Cocheo;Paolo Sacco;Caterina Boaretto;Emile De Saeger

  • Waterbird Populations and Pressures in the Baltic Sea

    Henrik Skov;Stefan Heinänen;Ramnas Žydelis;Jochen Bellebaum

  • Pan-Arctic seasonal cycles and long-term trends of aerosol properties from 10 observatories

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  • Pan-Arctic aerosol number size distributions: seasonality and transport patterns

    Eyal Freud;Radovan Krejci;Peter Tunved;Richard Leaitch

  • The fate of mercury in Arctic terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, a review

    Thomas A. Douglas;Lisa L. Loseto;Robie W. Macdonald;Peter Outridge

  • The mass balance of mercury in the springtime arctic environment

    Steven B. Brooks;Alfonso Saiz-Lopez;Henrik Skov;Steve E. Lindberg

  • Consumption of discards by seabirds in the North Sea

    C.J. Camphuysen;B. Calvo;J. Durinck;K. Ensor

Frequent Co-Authors

Ole Hertel
Ole Hertel Aarhus University
Andreas Massling
Andreas Massling Aarhus University
Rossana Bossi
Rossana Bossi Aarhus University
Jesper H. Christensen
Jesper H. Christensen Aarhus University
Marianne Glasius
Marianne Glasius Aarhus University
Jørgen Brandt
Jørgen Brandt Aarhus University
Aurélien Dommergue
Aurélien Dommergue Grenoble Alpes University
Torkel Gissel Nielsen
Torkel Gissel Nielsen Technical University of Denmark
Roy M. Harrison
Roy M. Harrison University of Birmingham
Manuel Dall'Osto
Manuel Dall'Osto Spanish National Research Council

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