Publications
NIBIOs employees contribute to several hundred scientific articles and research reports every year. You can browse or search in our collection which contains references and links to these publications as well as other research and dissemination activities. The collection is continously updated with new and historical material.
2012
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The extractives responsible for the natural durability of western redcedar (WRC) are not well understood. Recent work by the Norwegian Institute of Wood Technology and the Norwegian Forest and Landscape Institute has evaluated the natural durability of Norwegian wood species and reference species, including Norwegian-grown WRC and North American-grown WRC, in a series of decay tests. The availability of retained samples from these tests presented an excellent opportunity to compare the extractives contents of North American and Norwegian grown-WRC, and to correlate field test decay data and extractives content. The North American-grown WRC contained much greater concentrations of extractives than the Norwegian-grown WRC evaluated in this test. However, despite these differences, performance in the EN 252 stake test in Sørkedalen was only marginally better for North American-grown WRC. Both sets of samples were comparatively low in an as yet uncharacterized compound previously associated with decay resistance. However, there were not enough data to thoroughly examine the correlations between extractives and durability data in this material.
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The ExFlood project started in 2010 and concentrates on the reduction of peak flow during extreme events. The project is in progress, and results are preliminary. The project is funded by the Norwegian Research Council, NORKLIMA program.
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Eivind Vangdal Sigrid Flatland Iren Knutsen Hanne LarsenAbstract
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Alena Gibalova Eivind Vangdal Per gustav anders Leufvén,Abstract
The flavor of apples after storage is important to the consumers. Most often factors like decay, firmness and the contents of soluble solids and acidity are regarded as the limiting factors for storability of apples. The amount of volatile aroma compounds is less studied. Using head space analyses the amounts of 8 compounds known to be important to aroma of apples were studied during storage. Some compounds increased while others decreased during storage. Apples of three cultivars and from trees treated with foliar fertilization with nitrogen and calcium were included. The early ripening cultivar ‘Discovery’ had more aroma compounds in November and less in February. In the late ripening cultivar ‘Elstar’ the content of aroma compounds was low in November. However, the amounts were more than doubled in February. The foliar fertilization with nitrogen tended to reduce the amount of aroma compounds while the highest content was found in apples from trees treated with calcium. However, these tendencies were not statistically significant. In ‘Discovery’ the content of aroma compounds may be a limiting factor to the storability of this cultivar.
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Lone Ross Gobakken Olav Albert HøibøAbstract
The aesthetic service life of outdoor exposed wooden surfaces are often decided by growth of moulds and blue stain fungi, but also other visual changes caused by weathering such as colour changes, abrasion or wear, blistering, flaking, and even cracks in the wood or coating will contribute. When developing models that describe changes in the wood material and aim to predict the service life, it is essential to understand the impact of different climatic factors, the effect of variation in the wooden product itself and in the quality of craftsmanship and building design. The objective of this presentation is to gather knowledge about which factors influence surface mould growth on wood substrates in an outdoor environment. The analysis and the model development are based on data from evaluation of mould growth coverage on outdoors exposed wood panels consisting of different combinations of wood substrates and surface finishes from a number of field studies performed over the last years [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7].
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Adam ParuchAbstract
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Arne Oddvar Skjelvåg Arnold Arnoldussen Ove Mindor Klakegg Ole Einar TveitoAbstract
Models for an holistic analysis of a farm's greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are available, e.g. HolosNor. They require access to a farm's management data and its soil and climatic conditions. The objective of this investigation was to demonstrate how available soil and climatic data can be used to provide the required inputs of a farm's natural resource base. Soil type recordings from six municipalities representing main agroclimatic zones of Norway were used. By means of a soil moisture model a combined index of soil moisture and temperature was estimated for use in a carbon balance model, also taking crop species into account. Water filled pore space (Wfps) to saturation and soil temperature were estimated for calculation of emission of nitrous oxide. Input variables for calculation of GHG emissions varied considerably among municipalities and among farms therein.