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Björn Holmer
Senior Lecturer
Department of Earth-
An anisotropic parameterization scheme for longwave irradiance and its impact on radiant load in urban outdoor
settings
Nils Wallenberg, Björn Holmer, Fredrik Lindberg, David Rayner
International Journal of Biometeorology - 2023 -
Is Physiological Equivalent Temperature (PET) a superior screening tool for heat stress risk than Wet-Bulb Globe Temperature (WBGT) index? Eight years of data from the Gothenburg half
marathon.
Sofia Thorsson, D.P. Rayner, Gunnar Palm, Fredrik Lindberg, Eric Carlström, Mats Börjesson, Finn Nilson, Amir Khorram-Manesh, Björn Holmer
British journal of sports medicine - 2021 -
Multi-scale remote sensing observations of a palsa in degradation
phase
Heather Reese, Mats Olvmo, Sofia Thorsson, Björn Holmer
EGU General Assembly 2021, online, 19–30 Apr 2021, EGU21-14455, 2021 - 2021 -
Sub-arctic palsa degradation and the role of climatic drivers in the largest coherent palsa mire complex in Sweden (Vissátvuopmi),
1955–2016
Mats Olvmo, Björn Holmer, Sofia Thorsson, Heather Reese, Fredrik Lindberg
Scientific Reports - 2020 -
Vissátvuopmi palsmyr – en naturtyp på väg att
försvinna
Mats Olvmo, Sofia Thorsson, Heather Reese, Björn Holmer
Geologiskt Forum - 2020 -
Sub-arctic palsa degradation and the role of climatic drivers in the largest coherent palsa mire complex in Sweden (Vissatvuopmi),
1955-2016
Mats Olvmo, Björn Holmer, Sofia Thorsson, Heather Reese, Fredrik Lindberg
Scientific Reports - 2020 -
The influence of anisotropic diffuse shortwave radiation on mean radiant temperature in outdoor urban
environments
Nils Wallenberg, Fredrik Lindberg, Björn Holmer, Sofia Thorsson
Urban Climate - 2020 -
Medical Emergencies During a Half Marathon Race - The Influence of
Weather.
Eric Carlström, Mats Börjesson, Gunnar Palm, Amir Khorram-Manesh, Fredrik Lindberg, Björn Holmer, Andreas Berner, Per Örninge, Hampus Luning, Finn nilsson, Carita Gelang, Sofia Thorsson
International journal of sports medicine - 2019 -
8B.2: Is the Wet-Bulb Globe Temperature (WBGT) Index the Best Screening Tool for the Assessment of Heat Stress during a City
Half-Marathon?
Sofia Thorsson, Gunnar Palm, Fredrik Lindberg, David Rayner, Eric Carlström, Mats Börjesson, Finn Nilsson, Amir Khorram-Manesh, Björn Holmer
http://10th International Conference on Urban Climate/14th Symposium on the Urban Environment, New York, US, August 2018 - 2018 -
9B.7: Mean Radiant Temperature and the Shape of the Standing
Man
Björn Holmer, Fredrik Lindberg, Sofia Thorsson
10th International Conference on Urban Climate/14th Symposium on the Urban Environment, New York, US, August 2018 - 2018 -
9B.8: The Influence of Anisotropic Diffuse Radiation on Mean Radiant Temperature in Outdoor Urban
Environments
Nils Wallenberg, Fredrik Lindberg, Sofia Thorsson, Björn Holmer
10th International Conference on Urban Climate/14th Symposium on the Urban Environment, New York, US, August 2018 - 2018 -
Värmestress i urbana utomhusmiljöer – förekomst och möjliga åtgärder i befintlig
bebyggelse
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Cultivated land – a scarce commodity in a densely populated rural area in South Wollo,
Ethiopia
Staffan Rosell, Mats Olvmo, Björn Holmer
Journal of Land Use Science - 2017 -
Present and projected future mean radiant temperature for three European
cities
Sofia Thorsson, D.P. Rayner, Fredrik Lindberg, Ana Monteiro, Lutz Katzschner, Kevin Ka-Lun Lau, Sabrina Campe, Antje Katzschner, Janina Konarska, Shiho Onomura, Sara Velho, Björn Holmer
International Journal of Biometeorology - 2017 -
Transpiration of urban trees and its cooling effect in a high latitude
city
Janina Konarska, Johan Uddling, Björn Holmer, Martina Lutz, Fredrik Lindberg, Håkan Pleijel, Sofia Thorsson
International journal of biometeorology - 2016 -
Intra-urban nocturnal cooling rates: development and evaluation of the NOCRA
model
Shiho Onomura, Björn Holmer, Fredrik Lindberg, Sofia Thorsson
Meteorological Applications - 2016 -
Influence of vegetation and building geometry on the spatial variations of air temperature and cooling rates in a high latitude
city
Janina Konarska, Björn Holmer, Fredrik Lindberg, Sofia Thorsson
International Journal of Climatology - 2016 -
Street geometry design and its effect on mean radiant temperature: A parametric study based on numerical
modelling
Kevin Ka-Lun Lau, Sofia Thorsson, Fredrik Lindberg, Björn Holmer
ICUC9 – 9 th International Conference on Urban Climate jointly with 12th Symposium on the Urban Environment. 20-24 July 2015, Toulouse, France - 2015 -
Transpiration of urban trees and its impact on nocturnal cooling in Gothenburg,
Sweden
Janina Konarska, Johan Uddling, Björn Holmer, Martina Lutz, Fredrik Lindberg, Håkan Pleijel, Sofia Thorsson
ICUC9 – 9 th International Conference on Urban Climate jointly with 12th Symposium on the Urban Environment. 20-24 July 2015, Toulouse, France - 2015 -
An intra-urban nocturnal cooling rate
model
Shiho Onomura, Björn Holmer, Fredrik Lindberg, Sofia Thorsson
ICUC9 – 9 th International Conference on Urban Climate jointly with 12th Symposium on the Urban Environment. 20-24 July 2015, Toulouse, France - 2015 -
How to transform the standing man from a box to a cylinder – a modified methodology to calculate mean radiant temperature in field studies and
models
Björn Holmer, Fredrik Lindberg, D.P. Rayner, Sofia Thorsson
ICUC9 – 9 th International Conference on Urban Climate jointly with 12th Symposium on the Urban Environment. 20-24 July, Toulouse, France - 2015 -
Urban climatic map studies in Sweden:
Gothenburg
Björn Holmer, Fredrik Lindberg, Sofia Thorsson
The Urban Climatic Map: A Methodology for Sustainable Urban Planning - 2015 -
A statistical downscaling algorithm for thermal comfort
applications
D.P. Rayner, Fredrik Lindberg, Sofia Thorsson, Björn Holmer
Journal of Theoretical and Applied Climatology - 2015 -
Using Land Cover, Population, and Night Light Data for Assessing Local Temperature Differences in Mainz,
Germany
J. Linden, J. Esper, Björn Holmer
Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology - 2015 -
Erratic rainfall and its consequences for the cultivation of teff in two adjacent areas in South Wollo,
Ethiopia
Staffan Rosell, Björn Holmer
Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift - 2015 -
Meteorological forcing data for urban outdoor thermal comfort models from a coupled convective boundary layer and surface energy balance
scheme
Shiho Onomura, C. S. B. Grimmond, Fredrik Lindberg, Björn Holmer, Sofia Thorsson
Urban Climate - 2015 -
Characteristics of the mean radiant temperature in high latitude cities—implications for sensitive climate planning
applications
Fredrik Lindberg, Björn Holmer, Sofia Thorsson, D.P. Rayner
International Journal Of Biometeorology - 2014 -
Mean radiant temperature - A predictor of heat related
mortality
Sofia Thorsson, Joacim Rocklöv, Janina Konarska, Fredrik Lindberg, Björn Holmer, Bénédicte Dousset, D.P. Rayner
Urban Climate - 2014 -
Transmissivity of solar radiation through crowns of single urban trees—application for outdoor thermal comfort
modelling
Janina Konarska, Fredrik Lindberg, Annika Larsson, Sofia Thorsson, Björn Holmer
Theoretical and Applied Climatology - 2014 -
Carbon monoxide concentrations in outdoor wood-fired kitchens in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso-implications for women's and children's
health
Sofia Thorsson, Björn Holmer, Andreas Andjelic, J. Linden, Sandra Cimerman, Lars Barregård
Environmental Monitoring & Assessment - 2014 -
Evening evapotranspirative cooling in relation to vegetation and urban geometry in the city of Ouagadougou, Burkina
Faso
Björn Holmer, Sofia Thorsson, Jenny Lindén
International Journal of Climatology - 2013 -
Intra-urban air pollution in a rapidly growing Sahelian
city
Jenny Lindén, Johan Boman, Björn Holmer, Sofia Thorsson, Ingegärd Eliasson
Environmental International - 2012 -
Urban climate and air pollution in Ouagadougou, Burkina
Faso
Jenny Lindén, Sofia Thorsson, Johan Boman, Björn Holmer
2012 -
Statistical modelling of pedestrian wind speed using high‐resolution digital surface
models
Lars Johansson, Fredrik Lindberg, Shiho Onomura, Björn Holmer, Sofia Thorsson
The Eight International Conference on Urban Climates - 2012 -
Potential changes in outdoor thermal comfort conditions in Gothenburg, Sweden due to climate change: the influence of urban
geometry
Sofia Thorsson, Fredrik Lindberg, Jesper Björklund, Björn Holmer, D.P. Rayner
International Journal of Climatology - 2011 -
Thermally induced wind patterns in the Sahelian city of Ouagadougou, Burkina
Faso.
Jenny Lindén, Björn Holmer
Theoretical and Applied Climatology - 2011 -
Diurnal and intra-urban particle concentrations in relation to windspeed and stability during the dry season in three African
cities
Ingegärd Eliasson, P Jonsson, Björn Holmer
Environmental Monitoring and Assessment - 2009 -
Potential increase of heat stress in Swedish cities due to climate change: the impact of built structure on thermal
comfort.
Sofia Thorsson, Fredrik Lindberg, Jesper Björklund, Björn Holmer
The seventh International Conference on Urban Climate (ICUC7), Yokohama, Japan, 29 June – 3 July. - 2009 -
A tentative study of urban and suburban fine particles (PM2.5) collected in Ouagadougou, Burkina
Faso
Johan Boman, Jenny Lindén, Sofia Thorsson, Björn Holmer, Ingegärd Eliasson
X-Ray Spectrometry - 2009 -
Recovery and protection of coastal ecosystems after tsunami event and potential for participatory forestry CDM - examples from Sri
Lanka
Eskil Mattsson, Madelene Ostwald, Björn Holmer, Matilda Palm, S.P Nissanka
Ocean & Coastal Management - 2008 -
SOLWEIG 1.0 – Modelling spatial variations of 3D radiant fluxes and mean radiant temperature in complex urban
settings
Fredrik Lindberg, Björn Holmer, Sofia Thorsson
International Journal of Biometeorology - 2008 -
Fluctuations of winter wheat yields in relation to length of winter in Sweden 1866 to
2006
Björn Holmer
Climate Research - 2008 -
Rainfall change and its implications for Belg harvest in South Wollo,
Ethiopia
Staffan Rosell, Björn Holmer
Geografiska Annaler, Series A: Physical Geography - 2007 -
Different methods for estimating the mean radiant temperature in an outdoor
setting
Sofia Thorsson, Fredrik Lindberg, Ingegärd Eliasson, Björn Holmer
International Journal of Climatology - 2007 -
Cooling rates, sky view factors and the development of intra-urban air temperature
diffeences
Björn Holmer, Sofia Thorsson, Ingegärd Eliasson
Geografiska Annaler - 2007 -
Geographical distribution of road slipperiness in Sweden - National, Regional and County
scales
Anna K Andersson, Torbjörn Gustavsson, Jörgen Bogren, Björn Holmer
Meteorol. Appl. - 2007 -
Surface heating in relation to air temperature, wind and turbulence in an urban street
canyon
Brian Offerle, Ingegärd Eliasson, C. S. B. Grimmond, Björn Holmer
Boundary-Layer Meteorology - 2007 -
Longwave incoming radiation in the Tropics: results from field work in three African
cities
P. Jonsson, Ingegärd Eliasson, Björn Holmer, C. S. B. Grimmond
Theoretical and Applied Climatology - 2006 -
A GIS based empirical model to simulate air temperature variations in the Göteborg urban area during the
night
Marie Svensson, Ingegärd Eliasson, Björn Holmer
Climate Res. - 2002 -
Calculation of sky view factors with GIS
(IDRISI)
Björn Holmer, Ulrika Postgård
Theor. Appl. Climatol. - 2001 -
Advection caused by the urban heat island circulation as a regulating factor on the nocturnal urban heat
island
Marie Haeger-Eugensson, Björn Holmer
Int. Journ. Climatol. - 1999 -
Winter land breeze in a high latitude complex coastal
area
Björn Holmer, Marie Haeger-Eugensson
Physical Geogr. - 1999 -
Urban-rural vapour pressure differences and their role in the development of urban heat
islands
Björn Holmer, Ingegärd Eliasson
Int. Journ. Climatol. - 1999 -
Flaking by insolation drying and salt weathering on the Swedish west
coast
Björn Holmer
Zeitschrift f. Geomorph. - 1998 -
Urban-rural vapour pressure differences and the urban heat island
formation
Björn Holmer, Ingegärd Eliasson
ICUC´96, International conference on urban climatology, Essen, Germany, 10-14 June - 1996 -
A simple operative method for determination of sky view factores in comples urban canyons from fisheye
photographs
Björn Holmer
Meteorolo. Zeitschrift - 1992 -
Urban heat island circulation in göteborg,
Sweden
Ingegärd Eliasson, Björn Holmer
Journal of Theoretical and Applied Climatology - 1990