Beschreibung:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- About The Handbook of Natural Resources -- Acknowledgments -- Aims and Scope -- Editor -- Contributors -- Section I: Atmosphere -- 1 Acid Rain and Nitrogen Deposition Introduction -- Sources and Distribution -- Human Health Effects -- Structural Impacts -- Ecosystem Impacts -- Reducing Acidic Deposition Effects -- References -- 2 Acid Rain and Precipitation Chemistry -- Introduction -- The Chemistry of Acid Rain -- Drop-Scale Transport Processes of Acid Rain -- Environmental Factors Influencing the Acid Rain Formation and Impacts -- References -- 3 Air Pollutants: Elevated Carbon Dioxide -- Introduction -- Atmospheric Change: Concentrations and Trends -- Effects of O[sub(3)] and CO[sub(2)] Alone -- Interactive Effects of Air Pollutants and CO[sub(2)] -- Conclusion -- References -- 4 Albedo -- Introduction -- Factors Affecting Albedo -- Measurement of Albedo -- Conclusions -- References -- 5 Arctic Oscillation -- Introduction -- AO and Atmospheric Circulation -- Global Effects of AO -- AO and Northern Hemisphere Annular Mode -- AO and North Atlantic Oscillation -- AO and Arctic Warming -- Spatial Variation of AO -- References -- 6 Asian Monsoon -- Introduction -- Major Features of Asian Monsoon Climate and Its Two Sub-Systems: South Asian Monsoon and East Asian Monsoon -- Variability of Asian Monsoons -- Human-Monsoon Interaction -- Global Monsoon -- References -- Bibliography -- 7 Atmospheric Acid Deposition -- Introduction -- Major Emission Sources and Trends -- Trends in Acid Deposition -- Environmental Effects of Acid Deposition -- Conclusion: Acid Deposition Today and in the Future -- References -- 8 Atmospheric Circulation: General -- Introduction -- Overturning Circulation -- Poleward Energy Transport by the General Circulation.