Title: Global air pollution :
Authors: Bridgman, H. A.
Date: 1990
Publisher: Belhaven,
Physical description: xiv, 261 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: T
Contents: PRIMARY GASEOUS POLLUTANTS AND TRANSPORT: Carbon -- Sulphur -- Nitrogen -- The meteorology of long-range transport -- TROPOSHPERIC AND STRATOSPHERIC OZONE: Tropospheric ozone -- The destruction of stratospheric ozone -- Trends in global total ozone -- Surface impacts and political decisions -- ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS: Background aerosol concentrations -- Tropical aerosols -- Continental aerosols in anthropogenically affected areas -- Light extinction and visibility -- Dry deposition -- Possible impacts on climate -- TRACE GASES AND GLOBAL WARMING: The greenhouse theory -- The culprit gases -- Estimates of greenhouse impacts -- Is there any evidence for greenhouse-gas warming -- Potential impacts from greenhouse-gas warming -- RAINWATER QUALITY AND ACIDITY: An introduction to rainwater chemistry -- Rainwater quality at background locations -- Acid precipitation and deposition -- Effects of acid deposition on ecosystems -- The need for cooperative effort -- THE ENVIRONMENTAL CONSEQUENCES OF NUCLEAR WAR: Introduction to radiation pollutants -- The lessons of Chernobyl -- Nuclear winter -- Environmental consequences -- Uncertainties and recent developments -- LONG RANGE TRANSPORT OF AIR POLLUTION: Arctic haze -- Pollution transport to the western North Atlantic -- Transport of Aeolian Dust -- AIR QUALITY IN URBAN ATMOSPHERES: Waste heat -- Primary pollutants in urban atmospheres -- Photochemical oxidants -- Urban pollution rankings in the United States -- CONCLUSIONS: LOOKING TOWARDS THE 21ST CENTURY: Improving the information base -- Global population and the economic gap -- The need for sustainable development -- Solving global environmental problems.
Notes: Errata inserted.
Subject headings (LCSH): Air quality.; Air--Pollution; Air--Pollution--Environmental aspects.