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Acid Deposition at High Elevation Sites

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  • © 1988

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  1. M. H. Unsworth

    1. Institute of Terrestrial Ecology, Edinburgh, Scotland

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  2. D. Fowler

    1. Institute of Terrestrial Ecology, Edinburgh, Scotland

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Part of the book series: Nato Science Series C: (ASIC, volume 252)

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Table of contents (40 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  3. Cloud and Rain Chemistry: Process Studies

    1. Physical Influences of Altitude on the Chemical Properties of Clouds and of Water Deposited from the Troposphere

      • R. J. Charlson, C. H. Twohy, P. K. Quinn
      Pages 109-124

    2. Measurements of the Short-Term Variability of Aqueous-Phase Mass Concentrations in Cloud Droplets

      • J. A. Ogren, J. Heintzenberg, A. Zuber, H.-C. Hansson, K. J. Noone, D. S. Covert et al.
      Pages 125-137

    3. Processes Determining Cloudwater Composition: Inferences from Field Measurements

      • Peter H. Daum
      Pages 139-153

    4. Cloud Microphysical Processes Relevant to Cloud Chemistry

      • T. W. Choularton, T. A. Hill
      Pages 155-174

    5. Modelling Wet Deposition onto Elevated Topography

      • T. A. Hill, A. Jones, T. W. Choularton
      Pages 175-188

    6. Cloud Chemistry Research at Great Dun Fell

      • A. S. Chandler, T. W. Choularton, M. J. Gay, T. A. Hill, A. Jones, A. P. Morse et al.
      Pages 189-214

    7. Measurements of Ambient SO2 and H2O2 at Great Dun Fell and Evidence of their Reaction in Cloud

      • G. J. Dollard, B. M. R. Jones, A. S. Chandler, M. J. Gay
      Pages 215-229

    8. Wet Deposition and Altitude, The Role of Orographic Cloud

      • D. Fowler, J. N. Cape, I. D. Leith, T. W. Choularton, M. J. Gay, A. Jones
      Pages 231-257

    9. Time Resolution In Precipitation and Cloud Sampling

      • A. R. Marsh, D. L. Ames, P. A. Clark, G. P. Gervat, W. J. McElroy
      Pages 259-281

    10. Controlled Chemical Kinetic Experiments in Cloud: A Review of the CERL/UMIST Great Dun Fell Project

      • G. P. Gervat, P. A. Clark, A. R. W. Marsh, T. W. Choularton, M. J. Gay
      Pages 283-298

    11. Physics of Cloudwater Deposition and Evaporation at Castlelaw, S.E. Scotland

      • R. Milne, A. Crossley, M. H. Unsworth
      Pages 299-307

    12. A Comparison of Methods for Estimating Cloud Water Deposition to a New Hampshire (U.S.A.) Subalpine Forest

      • Gary M. Lovett
      Pages 309-320

  4. Cloud and Rain Chemistry: Monitoring Studies

    1. A Comparison of Atmospheric Exposure Conditions at High- and Low- Elevation Forests in the Southern Appalachian Mountain Range

      • S. E. Lindberg, D. Silsbee, D. A. Schaefer, J. G. Owens, W. Petty
      Pages 321-344

    2. Chemical Concentrations in Cloud Water from Four Sites in the Eastern United States

      • Kathleen C. Weathers, Gene E. Likens, F. Herbert Bormann, John S. Eaton, Kenneth D. Kimball, James N. Galloway et al.
      Pages 345-357

    3. Measurements of the Properties of High Elevation Fog in Quebec, Canada

      • Robert S. Schemenauer, Peter H. Schuepp, Selim Kermasha, Pilar Cereceda
      Pages 359-374
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About this book

There is no shortage of general books on the subject of acid rain, or of symposium proceedings reviewing work ranging from atmospheric chemistry and deposition processes to freshwater acidification and effects on vegetation. In contrast, the collection of papers from this Workshop is focussed on a much smaller subject, the processes of acid deposition at high altitude sites. Interest in deposition at high elevation sites comes largely from observed vertical gradients in the degree of forest damage at sites in the Federal Republic of Germany and the eastern United States. These gradients show that damage to Norway spruce and fir increases with altitude at sites in Bavaria and the Black Forest, and that Red spruce are declining at high elevation sites in the Appalachian Mountains. With the large scale of scientific interest in forest decline, cany research groups, during the last five years, have been examining atmospheric chemistry, deposition processes, and effects on vegetation and soils at upland sites. In particular there have been many recent studies of cloud and precipitation chemistry, which show much larger concentrations of all ions in cloud water than in rain or snow. These studies have also shown that processes of wet and dry deposition and also the chemistry of the air at hill tops are modified strongly by orographic effects.

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`This book should be required reading for those interested in how acid contributes to environmental damage.'
J. Miller, Bulletin American Meteorological Society.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Terrestrial Ecology, Edinburgh, Scotland

    M. H. Unsworth, D. Fowler

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