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Knut Breivik is affiliated with the Norwegian Institute for Air Research in Norway. Their research is primarily situated within the field of Environmental Science, with a total of 49 publications. The subfields of their work include Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Atmospheric Science, Pollution, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, and Environmental Chemistry.

The scientist's research focuses on several main topics including:

  • Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances research
  • Recycling and Waste Management Techniques
  • Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
  • Mercury impact and mitigation studies

Knut Breivik has contributed to multiple papers, some of the more recent and cited ones include:

  • Soil pollution at a major West African E-waste recycling site: Contamination pathways and implications for potential mitigation strategies (2020), published in Environment International
  • Time trends of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and Chemicals of Emerging Arctic Concern (CEAC) in Arctic air from 25 years of monitoring (2021), published in The Science of The Total Environment
  • What do we know about the production and release of persistent organic pollutants in the global environment? (2022), published in Environmental Science Advances
  • Atmospheric composition in the European Arctic and 30 years of the Zeppelin Observatory, Ny-Ålesund (2022), published in Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Non-target and suspect characterisation of organic contaminants in Arctic air - Part 2: Application of a new tool for identification and prioritisation of chemicals of emerging Arctic concern in air (2020), published in Atmospheric chemistry and physics

The scientist frequently coauthors with:

  • Frank Wania (10 publications)
  • Pernilla Bohlin-Nizzetto (8 publications)
  • Sabine Eckhardt (6 publications)
  • Claudia Moeckel (4 publications)
  • Martin Schlabach (4 publications)

The primary publication venues for Knut Breivik include:

  • Environmental Science Processes & Impacts (6 publications)
  • The Science of The Total Environment (3 publications)
  • Environmental Science Advances (2 publications)
  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics (2 publications)
  • Environmental Science & Technology (2 publications)

Best Publications

  • Towards a global historical emission inventory for selected PCB congeners--a mass balance approach. 1. Global production and consumption.

    Knut Breivik;Andrew J. Sweetman;Jozef M. Pacyna;Kevin C. Jones

  • Towards a global historical emission inventory for selected PCB congeners--a mass balance approach 3. An update.

    Knut Breivik;Andrew J. Sweetman;Jozef M. Pacyna;Kevin C. Jones

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

    K. Tørseth;W. Aas;K. Breivik;A. M. Fjæraa

  • Towards a global historical emission inventory for selected PCB congeners — A mass balance approach

    Knut Breivik;Andy Sweetman;Jozef M. Pacyna;Kevin C. Jones

  • Global distribution and budget of PCBs and HCB in background surface soils: implications for sources and environmental processes.

    Sandra N. Meijer;Wendy Ockenden;A. J. Sweetman;K. Breivik

  • Global fate of POPs: current and future research directions.

    Rainer Lohmann;Knut Breivik;Knut Breivik;Jordi Dachs;Derek Muir

  • Primary sources of selected POPs: regional and global scale emission inventories

    Knut Breivik;Ruth Alcock;Yi-Fan Li;Robert E Bailey

  • 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

  • PBDEs in European background soils: levels and factors controlling their distribution.

    Ashraf Hassanin;Knut Breivik;Sandra N. Meijer;Eiliv Steinnes

  • Global Historical Stocks and Emissions of PBDEs.

    Golnoush Abbasi;Li Li;Knut Breivik;Knut Breivik

  • 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

  • Use of α-, β- and γ-hexachlorocyclohexane in Europe, 1970-1996

    Knut Breivik;Jozef M. Pacyna;Jörg Münch

  • Tracking the global generation and exports of e-waste. Do existing estimates add up?

    Knut Breivik;James M. Armitage;Frank Wania;Kevin C. Jones

  • The global re-cycling of persistent organic pollutants is strongly retarded by soils

    Wendy A. Ockenden;Knut Breivik;Sandra N. Meijer;Eiliv Steinnes

  • Relationships between organic matter, black carbon and persistent organic pollutants in European background soils : Implications for sources and environmental fate

    Jae Jak Nam;Orjan Gustafsson;Perihan Kurt-Karakus;Knut Breivik;Knut Breivik

  • Model-based evaluation of the use of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons molecular diagnostic ratios as a source identification tool.

    Athanasios Katsoyiannis;Knut Breivik;Knut Breivik

  • Tracking the global distribution of Persistent Organic Pollutants accounting for e-waste exports to developing regions

    Knut Breivik;Knut Breivik;James M. Armitage;Frank Wania;Andrew J. Sweetman

  • European atmospheric emissions of selected persistent organic pollutants, 1970–1995

    Jozef M. Pacyna;Jozef M. Pacyna;Knut Breivik;Jörg Münch;Janina Fudala

  • Spatial variability of POPs in European background air

    Anne Karine Halse;Martin Schlabach;Sabine Eckhardt;Andy Sweetman

  • Occurrence and seasonality of cyclic volatile methyl siloxanes in Arctic air.

    Ingjerd Sunde Krogseth;Ingjerd Sunde Krogseth;Amelie Kierkegaard;Michael S. McLachlan;Knut Breivik;Knut Breivik

  • Record high peaks in PCB concentrations in the Arctic atmosphere due to long-range transport of biomass burning emissions

    S. Eckhardt;K. Breivik;K. Breivik;S. Manø;A. Stohl

Frequent Co-Authors

Kevin C. Jones
Kevin C. Jones Lancaster University
Frank Wania
Frank Wania University of Toronto
Martin Schlabach
Martin Schlabach Norwegian Institute for Air Research
Andrew J. Sweetman
Andrew J. Sweetman Lancaster University
Sabine Eckhardt
Sabine Eckhardt Norwegian Institute for Air Research
Roland Kallenborn
Roland Kallenborn Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Eiliv Steinnes
Eiliv Steinnes Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Hayley Hung
Hayley Hung Environment and Climate Change Canada
Jozef M. Pacyna
Jozef M. Pacyna AGH University of Science and Technology
Ed Sverko
Ed Sverko Harbin Institute of Technology

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