Acid Rain And Acid Waters

Author : Gwyneth Parry Howells
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Acid rain
ISBN : CORNELL:31924059830624

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Acid Rain and Acid Waters by Gwyneth Parry Howells Pdf

Provides a basic account of the acid rain story and covers the social and historical background to the effects of emissions on health and the evironment. It provides a wide-ranging but integrated account of this issue which has been of environmental concern for several dcades and, now that control strategies have been enacted in Europe and North America, the author gives consideration to the time-scale for recovery of an acid-damaged ecosystem and the alternatives available.

Author : Carter N. Lane
Publisher : Nova Publishers
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1590334612

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Acid Rain by Carter N. Lane Pdf

'Acid rain' is a broad term used to describe several ways that acids fall out of the atmosphere. A more precise term is acid deposition, which has two parts: wet and dry. Wet deposition refers to acidic rain, fog, and snow. As this acidic water flows over and through the ground, it affects a variety of plants and animals. The strength of the effects depends on many factors, including how acidic the water is, the chemistry and buffering capacity of the soils involved, and the types of fish, trees, and other living things that rely on the water. Dry deposition refers to acidic gases and particles. About half of the acidity in the atmosphere falls back to earth through dry deposition. The wind blows these acidic particles and gases onto buildings, cars, homes, and trees. Dry deposited gases and particles can also be washed from trees and other surfaces by rainstorms. When that happens, the runoff water adds those acids to the acid rain, making the combination more acidic than the falling rain alone. Prevailing winds blow the compounds that cause both wet and dry acid deposition across state and national borders, and sometimes over hundreds of miles. This new book combines an excellent background article with over 900 abstracts and book citations. Easy access is provided by title, author, and subject indexes.

Author : Robert Ostmann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039401976

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Acid Rain by Robert Ostmann Pdf

Traces the spread of acid rain around the world and examines the causes and effects of acid precipitation.

Author : Basil John Mason
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Nature
ISBN : UOM:39015020840966

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Acid Rain by Basil John Mason Pdf

The causes and consequences of acid rain are subjects of widespread concern and controversy. However the effects of acid deposition on the chemistry of lakes and streams, and on the survival of fish and other aquatic life, have been greatly clarified by the results of a recent Anglo-Scandinavian surface waters research program. This book presents a concise, nonspecialist account of the results and their implications by the director of the program. Based on studies conducted throughout the United Kingdom and northern Europe, the book includes chapters on emissions, transport, and deposition of acid pollution; hydrochemical studies in catchments; catchment process studies; catchment manipulation experiments; the role of hydrology and soil chemistry; palaeolimnological studies; the toxic effects of acidification on fish and other aquatic life; and catchment modelling studies. The highly interdisciplinary nature of the research should appeal to a wide range of scientists and to policy-makers interested in acid rain and its consequences. It is also aimed at postgraduates and third-year undergraduate students in the environmental sciences.

Author : Jon R. Luoma
Publisher : Penguin Group
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Science
ISBN : 0140080945

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Troubled Skies, Troubled Waters by Jon R. Luoma Pdf

A study of the acid rain phenomenon discusses the causes and critical environmental implications of acid rain pollution and evaluates the rationale behind political inactivity regarding this world-wide problem.

Author : United States. General Accounting Office. RCED.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Acid pollution of rivers, lakes, etc
ISBN : UIUC:30112033989150

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Acid Rain by United States. General Accounting Office. RCED. Pdf

Author : Kathleen Stecher Mayer,Ell-Piret Multer,R. Kent Schreiber
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Acid rain
ISBN : IND:30000065769600

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Acid Rain by Kathleen Stecher Mayer,Ell-Piret Multer,R. Kent Schreiber Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Acid rain
ISBN : UOM:39015004841139

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Air Pollution and Acid Rain by Anonim Pdf

Author : UK Acid Waters Review Group,Great Britain. Department of the Environment
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Nature
ISBN : UOM:39015053954700

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Acidity in United Kingdom Fresh Waters by UK Acid Waters Review Group,Great Britain. Department of the Environment Pdf

Author : Watt Committee on Energy Publications
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781482281187

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Acid Rain by Watt Committee on Energy Publications Pdf

This book contains papers, presented at the Fifteenth Consultative Council meeting of the Watt Committee on Energy, London, in 1983, on various topics related to acid rain, including fate of airborne pollution, vegetation and soils, freshwater, and remedial strategies.

Author : John Slade
Publisher : WOODGATE INTERNATIONAL
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2001-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 1893617084

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Acid Rain, Acid Snow by John Slade Pdf

A book that explains in clear and vivid language both acid rain and global ecology. It presents many solutions.

Author : J.O. Reuss,D.W. Johnson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781441985361

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Acid Deposition and the Acidification of Soils and Waters by J.O. Reuss,D.W. Johnson Pdf

The majority of this book was written in 1983-84 while the senior author was a Visiting Scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. We believe that the approach to the problem of acid deposition effects on soils and waters developed during this collaboration contains ele ments that are significantly different from most prior work in this area. Some of the material and the software used in the development of these concepts stem from earlier individual efforts of the authors. However, what we believe to be the more significant concepts concerning the processes by which alkalinity may be developed in acid soil solutions, and by which acid deposition may contrib ute to the loss of this alkalinity, were the result of this collaboration. The ultimate usefulness of these concepts in understanding and dealing with various aspects of the problems associated with acid deposition cannot be adequately gauged at the present time. They must first withstand tests of con sistency with available observation, and of direct experimentation. It is our hope that dissemination through this book will facilitate this process within the scientific community. The authors wish to thank the administration of the Environmental Science Division at ORNL, and the College of Agricultural Sciences at Colorado State University for their support in arranging this collaboration. We also wish to express our appreciation for the financial support provided by EPA. Personal thanks are due to Dr.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Acid precipitation (Meteorology)
ISBN : UIUC:30112099828938

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Acid Rain Bibliography by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jack L. Durham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Acid rain
ISBN : UCSD:31822024228538

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Acid Rain by Jack L. Durham Pdf

Author : R.W. Edwards,A.S. Gee,J.H. Stoner
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400918948

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Acid Waters in Wales by R.W. Edwards,A.S. Gee,J.H. Stoner Pdf

This book brings together research into the process of stream acidification and its impact on Welsh surface waters, carried out over the past decade or so. It is perhaps surprising that not until the 1980's was clear evidence of stream acidification assembled. In Wales, concerns over pollution had focused water quality sampling principally on the areas of traditional heavy industry and large urban popula tions served by inadequate sewerage systems and sewage disposal arrange ments. Mistakenly, it had been assumed that, with its prevailing westerly winds, Wales would receive precipitation substantially unpolluted by the industrial and urban emissions from Britain and mainland Europe. Assurance of the high quality of Welsh upland streams, the traditional nursery ground of salmonids, was eroded particularly by studies in the vicinity of Llyn Brianne reservoir in the catchment of the River Tywi of Central Wales. These demonstrated a clear correspondence between the biological quality and fisheries of streams in the catchment and aspects of stream chemistry, par ticularly pH, aluminium and calcium on the one hand, and catchment land use on the other. It is salutary to record that the first signals were of an inexplicable failure of the runs of migratory salmonids into the upper catchment, occupied by the Llyn Brianne reservoir and its influent streams, and the failure to restore the fishery by re-stocking with eggs and fry. Only then did the significance of the recent decline in some other upland lake and reservoir fisheries in Wales become apparent.