Ice‐nucleating particles that impact clouds and climate: Observational and modeling research needs

SM Burrows, CS McCluskey, G Cornwell… - Reviews of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Atmospheric ice‐nucleating particles (INPs) play a critical role in cloud freezing processes,
with important implications for precipitation formation and cloud radiative properties, and …

Common ragweed: a threat to environmental health in Europe

M Smith, L Cecchi, CA Skjøth, G Karrer… - Environment …, 2013 - Elsevier
Common or short ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia L.) is an annual herb belonging to the
Asteraceae family that was described by Carl Linnaeus in the 18th century. It is a noxious …

Effects of climate change and seed dispersal on airborne ragweed pollen loads in Europe

L Hamaoui-Laguel, R Vautard, LI Liu, F Solmon… - Nature Climate …, 2015 - nature.com
Common ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia) is an invasive alien species in Europe
producing pollen that causes severe allergic disease in susceptible individuals. Ragweed …

Airborne microalgae: insights, opportunities, and challenges

SVM Tesson, CA Skjøth, T Šantl-Temkiv… - Applied and …, 2016 - journals.asm.org
Airborne dispersal of microalgae has largely been a blind spot in environmental biological
studies because of their low concentration in the atmosphere and the technical limitations in …

[HTML][HTML] Map** allergenic pollen vegetation in UK to study environmental exposure and human health

RN McInnes, D Hemming, P Burgess, D Lyndsay… - Science of the Total …, 2017 - Elsevier
Allergenic pollen is produced by the flowers of a number of trees, grasses and weeds found
throughout the UK. Exposure to such pollen grains can exacerbate pollen-related asthma …

Climate change, airborne allergens, and three translational mitigation approaches

PJ Beggs, B Clot, M Sofiev, FH Johnston - EBioMedicine, 2023 - thelancet.com
One of the important adverse impacts of climate change on human health is increases in
allergic respiratory diseases such as allergic rhinitis and asthma. This impact is via the …

[HTML][HTML] A temporally and spatially explicit, data-driven estimation of airborne ragweed pollen concentrations across Europe

L Makra, I Matyasovszky, G Tusnády, LH Ziska… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Ongoing and future climate change driven expansion of aeroallergen-producing plant
species comprise a major human health problem across Europe and elsewhere. There is an …

[HTML][HTML] An operational model for forecasting ragweed pollen release and dispersion in Europe

M Prank, DS Chapman, JM Bullock, J Belmonte… - Agricultural and forest …, 2013 - Elsevier
The paper considers the possibilities of modelling the release and dispersion of the pollen of
common ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia L.), a highly allergenic invasive weed, which is …

Identifying urban sources as cause of elevated grass pollen concentrations using GIS and remote sensing

CA Skjøth, PV Ørby, T Becker, C Geels… - …, 2013 - bg.copernicus.org
We examine here the hypothesis that during flowering, the grass pollen concentrations at a
specific site reflect the distribution of grass pollen sources within a few kilometres of this site …

Building an automatic pollen monitoring network (ePIN): Selection of optimal sites by clustering pollen stations

J Oteros, M Sofiev, M Smith, B Clot, A Damialis… - Science of the Total …, 2019 - Elsevier
Airborne pollen is a recognized biological indicator and its monitoring has multiple uses
such as providing a tool for allergy diagnosis and prevention. There is a knowledge gap …